NO. I AVIFAUNA OF PANAMA — WETMORE 5 



through Hcrrera and Los Santos, including the valley of the Rio 

 Tonosi. There have been few records for the Province of Chiriqui 

 until recently, when I found crested bobwhites in small numbers in 

 the coastal lowlands between Alanje and Puerto Armuelles, as well 

 as near Boquete. The birds of this region are an isolated population 

 separated by a considerable area, where no quail are known, from 

 the main group of the species in the Republic. The bird of Chiriqui 

 differs so decidedly in coloration that it requires recognition as an- 

 other form. 



•^ COLINUS CRISTATUS MARIAE subsp. nov. 



Characters. — Similar to Colinus cristatus panamensis Dickey and 

 van Rossem ^ but decidedly darker, the markings of the upper surface 

 blacker, and the black areas of the lower surface more extensive in 

 both sexes ; darker than any other population of the species. 



Description. — Type, U.S.N.M. No. 471 174, male adult, from 7 

 kilometers south of Alanje, Province of Chiriqui, Panama, collected 

 March 8, i960, by A. Wetmore (original number 23600). Forehead, 

 lores, a narrow feathered area surrounding the eye, and side of head 

 down to the ramal area, dull white ; shorter anterior feathers of the 

 narrow, elongated crest pale drab-gray, the longer ones fuscous, 

 tipped, and spotted irregularly along the edges, with drab ; a broad 

 superciliary extending from above the middle of the eye back to 

 the side of the nape behind the auricular region mikado brown, lined 

 irregularly with black ; crown black, edged narrowly with white and 

 adjacent to the superciliary with bright brown ; auricular area dull 

 olive-buiif; black of crown extended down over nape, hindneck, and 

 sides of neck, to extreme upper back, and spotted rather irregularly 

 with white ; feathers of back, scapulars, tertials, wing coverts, rump, 

 upper tail coverts, and tail black, freckled with fine markings of fawn 

 color, grayish white, and white, the inner secondaries edged, and the 

 wings spotted more prominently, with dull white; primaries dull 

 mouse gray, with the edge of the outer web and the tip of both 

 webs varied from dull white to tilleul-bufif ; chin drab-gray; throat, 

 foreneck, and sides of upper neck, below auriculars, russet; base of 

 neck black, spotted with white and irregularly with russet, changing 

 across upper breast to sayal brown, with each feather banded basally 

 with white and medially with black below the brown tip to produce 

 an appearance of irregular spotting; abdomen pinkish buff, with 

 partly concealed bars of dull black, spotted with white and pinkish 



*• Colinus leucotis panamensis Dickey and van Rossem, Condor, vol. 32, No. 1, 

 Jan. 20, 1930, p. yi. (Aguadulce, Code, Panama.) 



