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cannot be sure. A female from this same locality has a pure 

 white throat (except for a few irregularly scattered black feathers), 

 and agrees with two females in the Lafresnaye Collection in this 

 respect. 



Gould's type of leucotis was a " Bogota" skin, numerous examples 

 of which he says came under his notice from time to time. Dr. 

 Chapman has recently suggested Honda, on the Magdalena River 

 northwest of Bogota, as a more precise type-locality. He goes 

 on to say: "This is a species of the Tropical Zone which in open 

 country ranges upward into the Subtropical and even to the lower 

 border of the Temperate Zone. It occurs on the western slope 

 of the Western Andes in the arid Caldas Basin, is not uncommon 

 in the Cauca Valley and is found as far south as La Sierra south 

 of Popayan, this marking the southern known limits of the genus. 

 In the upper Magdalena Valley it is abundant. To the west it 

 reaches up the Central Andes to at least 8300 feet, and to the east 

 we have specimens from the Eastern Andes almost up to the bor- 

 der of the Bogota Savanna. Quail are said to occur in the Savanna 

 but we have not succeeded in securing specimens and cannot say 

 whether the Savanna quail is leucotis or parvicristatus or an inter- 

 grade between the two." 



Mr. Carriker sent in a small series of this form from Aguachica, 

 on the Magdalena River, and from El Tambor and Pefia Blanca 

 in Santander, while Lieutenant Robinson met with it at Guaduas 

 and Honda, but secured only two specimens. "We found it 

 impossible to flush them a second time; and it so happened that 

 whenever we got shots, our guns were loaded with dust-shot, so 

 we failed to stop the birds." (It may be remarked in passing 

 that the plate in Lieutenant Robinson's book is a very poor rep- 

 resentation, being much too red.) Salmon secured eggs at Medel- 

 lin, in Antioquia; they are described as creamy buff, marked with 

 pale rufous freckles and blotches. 



Specimens examined. — Colombia: Guaduas, 2; Aguachica, 7; 

 El Tambor, 2; Pen a Blanca, 6; Caldas, 2; Yumbo, 2; Cali, 1; 

 Chicoral, 4; El Eden, 1; Anolaima, 1; Fusugasuga, 1; Honda, 9; 

 Mariquita, 2; El Alto de la Paz, 5; Purificacion, 1; "Bogota," 4; 

 "Colombian Andes," 1; "New Granada," 1. Unspecified, 2. 

 Total, 54. 



