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Sapo and Jesusito, Darien). — Sturgis, Field Book Birds Panama Canal Zone, 



1928, 29 (descr.; habits; Panama) .—Heath, Ibis, 1932, 482 (Barro Colorado 



Island, Panama). 

 Odontophorus guianensis chapmani Griscom, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixix, 1929, 



153 (Cana, e. Panama; descr.; crit.). — Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixx, 



1930, 160 (type spec, in Mus. Comp. Zool. = 0. g. marmoratus). 

 Odontophorus gmanensis canescens (not O. parambae canescens Chapman, 1921) 



Osgood and Conover, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., zool. ser., xii, 1922, 27, 



pi. 1, lower fig. (Rio CogoUo, Perija, Zulia, Venezuela; type in Conover 



coll.; fig.). 

 Odontophoriis guianensis polionotus Osgood and Conover, Auk, xliv, 1927, 561 (new 



name for O. guianensis canescens Osgood and Conover, preoccupied). 

 Odontophorus gujanensis polionotus Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 52 



(Venezuela). 

 Odontophorus gmanensis (not Tetrao guianensis Gmelin) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. 



Nat. Hist. New York, vii, 1862, 301 (Lion Hill, Panama) .—Seth-Smith, 



L'Oiseau, x, 1929, 763 (care in captivity). 



ODONTOPHORUS ERYTHROPS MELANOTIS Salvln 



Black-eared Wood Quah, 



Adult male. — Forehead, crown, occiput, and dorsal part of auriculars 

 dark chestnut; nape and interscapulars mummy brown heavily flecked 

 and vermiculated with fuscous, the interscapulars with pale smoke-gray 

 longitudinal flecks along the shaft except terminally ; upper wing coverts 

 and scapulars dark sepia transversely broadly blotched with dark clove 

 brown to dark fuscous and vermiculated with fuscous to blackish; the 

 large blackish blotches edged with pale cinnamon-brown, this pale color 

 most extensive and prominent, the black most restricted, on the outer 

 lesser and median coverts; the scapulars with incomplete whitish bars 

 on the inner part of their outer webs; the greater and median coverts 

 more regularly banded with blackish and with pale cinnamon-brown than 

 the others; secondaries dark clove brown, the outer webs abundantly 

 flecked and mottled with cinnamon-brown to pale cinnamon-brown and 

 blackish ; primaries dark clove brown, fairly uniform on their inner webs ; 

 heavily banded on the outer ones, these short bars almost coalescing on 

 some of the remiges to form solid outer webs of this color ; upper back 

 dull sepia, subterminally broadly banded with black, this band narrowly 

 edged proximally with cinnamon-brown proximal to which is a very 

 narrow black band, the sepia basal portion of the feathers speckled finely 

 with dusky; lower back and rump sepia to bister, faintly flecked with 

 dusky; upper tail coverts similar but with large blackish stippling and 

 the feathers subterminally blotched transversely with blackish; rectrices 

 mummy brown faintly and incompletely banded with dark sepia and 

 abundantly flecked and vermiculated terminally and marginally with sepia 

 to cinnamon-brown ; lores and circumocular area bare, dark plumbeous to 

 blackish ; cheeks, auriculars, chin, and throat black ; breast and sides dark. 



