1920 J Todd, The Genus Eupsychortyx. lSj{ 



examples listed herewith are from the von Berlepsch collection; 

 they are labeled as having been taken by R. Herrera in December, 

 1877. Nothing whatever is on record concerning its habits. 



Specimens examined. — Panama: Agua Dulce, 3; unspecified, 1. 

 Unspecified, 1. Total, 5. 



Eupsychortyx leucopogon leucotis (Gould). 



Plate V, figure 5. 



Ortyx leucotis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1843, 133 ("Bogota," 

 Colombia; orig. descr.; type in coll. Brit. Mus. [?]). — Gray, Gen. Birds, 

 III, 1846, 514 (in list of species; ref. orig. descr.). — Gray, List Spec. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., V, 1867, 77 ("Bogota," Colombia; references). — 

 Gray, Hand-List Birds, II, 1870, 273 (ref. descr.; range). 

 Eupsychortyx leucotis Gould, Mon. Odontophorinae, 1850, pi. 10 and 

 text (descr.; crit.). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1855, 163 

 ("Bogota," Colombia). — Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Avium Neotrop., 

 1873, 138, (in list of species; range).— Giebel, Thes. Orn., II, 1875, 142 

 (Gould's reference). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1879, 544 (Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia; descr. eggs). — Robinson, 

 A Flying Trip to the Tropics, 1895, 101, 153, part, pi. (Guaduas and 

 Honda, Colombia; habits). 

 Eupsichortyx leucotis Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., XLII, 1856, 883 (in 



list of species). 

 Eupsychortyx leucopogon (not Ortyx leucopogon Lesson) Ogilvie-Grant, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXII, 1893, 408, part ("Bogota" and Medellin, 

 Colombia; syn.; descr.; crit.). — Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, I, 1899, 

 45, part (Colombia, in range). — Oates, Cat. Birds' Eggs Brit. Mus., 

 I, 1901, 66 (Medellin, Colombia; descr. eggs). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, III, 1903, 295, part (Antioquia, Colombia; 

 descr. female; references). — Brabourne and Chubb, Birds S. Am., I, 

 1912, 13, part (range). 

 Colinus cristatus leucotis Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVI, 

 1917, 199 (Colombian localities [Caldas, Cali, La Sierra, El Eden, 

 Chicoral, Honda, Purificacion, Fusugasuga, Anolaima, El Carmen, 

 El Alto de la Paz]; range). 



Subspecific characters.— Similar to Eupsychortyx leucopogon leucopogon, 

 but upper parts paler, more grayish vinaceous, less brownish; white area 

 of head in male restricted to chin, lores, and sub-loral region; breast more 

 thickly spotted with white, and ground color paler, more russet; female 

 with the throat, superciliaries, etc., not so heavily streaked, and the under 

 surface in general whiter, the dark markings more restricted. 



