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Another variable feature is the extent and character of the 

 spotting below. In some specimens the spots are well developed 

 on the chest, while in others from the same locality the chest is 

 almost as immaculate as the breast. In some examples the dark 

 markings below assume the form of bars. In what appear to be 

 younger birds the breast is much paler, more like that of the 

 female, while the chest and abdomen are tinged with buffy. Mr. 

 Ogilvie-Grant describes a "quite young bird" as having "the 

 upper parts very similar to those of the female adult, but all the 

 feathers of the mantle, wing-coverts, scapulars, and chest have 

 pale buff shaft-stripes; chin and throat white, rest of the under- 

 pays white irregularly barred with black." The youngest bird 

 examined by me shows traces of this plumage; it has broad black 

 and brown shaft-streaks on the sides. The female of this species 

 may be distinguished from that of the others of this group by 

 the color of the under parts, there being a band of fawn color or 

 wood brown, more or less decided, on the breast just below the 

 neck-band, varied with a few small white spots or dark markings; 

 the variation in exact shade and pattern is considerable, however. 

 A female from Naguanagua (near La Cumbre de Valencia), Vene- 

 zuela (No. 35,163, Collection Carnegie Museum), is so very pe- 

 culiar that it can only be referred to sonnini provisionally, on 

 geographical grounds mainly. It lacks the breast-band entirely, 

 this part being barred irregularly with plain brownish black and 

 white; the throat is squamate rather than streaked. 



The capture of several specimens of this quail in the Serra da 

 Lua, near Boa Vista, on the Rio Branco, northern Brazil, by 

 Messrs. M. P. Anderson and R. H. Becker, working in the interest 

 of the Field Museum of Natural History, appears to constitute 

 the most southerly record for the species. These specimens so 

 far as I can see are not essentially different from those coming 

 from other sections. The Carnegie Museum possesses a nice 

 series of ten specimens from the region south of Lake Valencia 

 in Venezuela, where the species is said to be common. It has 

 been introduced into St. Thomas, St. Vincent, Mustique, and 

 probably other islands of the Lesser Antilles. Its range to the 

 west appears to be strictly limited by the Andes of Merida in 

 Venezuela and by the Eastern Andes in Colombia. Schomburgk 



