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tertials snuff brown, barred and spotted finely with sooty black, and 

 lined and spotted sparingly with small, irregular marks of buffy white ; 

 tertials with heavy, irregular markings of black, inner secondaries 

 barred broadly with black ; primaries fuscous, finely mottled with dull 

 cinnamon-buff on outer webs ; a band of white across the upper fore- 

 neck extending at either side over the malar region beneath the eye, 

 and on the lower eyelid; a broad band of black mixed with Mars 

 brown and russet extending between the two white bands from the 

 lower cheeks across the middle foreneck and upper throat, changing 

 to dull black over the ear coverts ; a broad band of white across the 

 lower foreneck; rest of lower surface dull buffy brown to tawny-olive, 

 heavily mottled with sooty black, spotted sparingly and indistinctly 

 with buffy white, becoming Saccardo's umber, with slightly heavier 

 markings of black and cinnamon-buff on the flanks and under tail 

 coverts ; under wing coverts fuscous, sparingly and indistinctly spotted 

 with dull Saccardo's umber. Bill, tarsi, and toes black (in dried skin). 



Measurements. — Male (type), wing 129.5, tail 44.3, culmen from 

 base 19.8, tarsus 45.2 mm. 



Female, wing 131.0, tail 46.7, culmen from base 19.6, tarsus 47.5 

 mm. 



Remarks. — The male and female from which this bird is described 

 were taken together. The adult female is very slightly browner than 

 the male. This specimen has the lores and the superciliary area black 

 like the crown, with only a fine spotting of white. The chin also seems 

 to have had the white band considerably reduced by black (though 

 this can not be ascertained clearly as some of the feathers of this area 

 are missing.) The line of the culmen and the tip of the maxilla in this 

 bird are partly brown. 



The discovery of this beautiful wood-quail, isolated in the higher 

 levels of the Serrania del Darien, adds another form to populations 

 of this genus with prominent markings of white on the head and neck. 

 It is most like Odontophorus strophimn of the Bogota region of Co- 

 lombia, which has the foreneck similar, with a black center bordered 

 broadly with white above and below. This species differs, however, 

 in the presence of a narrow black collar on the neck below the border 

 of the lower white band. Also strophium is rufous and cinnamon on 

 the breast and sides, with prominent white shaft lines and spots, has 

 the crown fuscous-brown, and the whole upper surface rufescent 

 rather than olive, with heavier, more prominent markings. Odonto- 

 phorus columbianus (Gould) of the subtropical zone of the moun- 

 tains of northern Venezuela in general resembles strophium but has 



