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Odontophorus melcmotis colorattis Griscom, Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 280, 1927, 3 



(Guaval, Rio Calovevora, 1,500 feet, Caribbean slope of w. Panama; descr.; 



crit.) ; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixxviii, 1935, 303 (Caribbean slope of w. 



Panama). 

 O'dontophorus melanotus coloratus Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixxi, 1931, 297 



(Boquete trail, Guabo, Cricamola, Panama). 

 Odontophorus erythrops coloratus Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, S3 



(distr.).— Hellmaye and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 269, part 



fsyn. ; distr.; all except sw. Costa Rica). 



ODONTOPHORUS ERYTHROPS VERECUNDUS Peters 



Honduranian Wood Quail 



Adult female^*. — Similar to that of Odontophorus erythrops melanotis 

 but "slightly grayer above, especially the upper back ; black markings on 

 the scapulars and interscapulars less pronounced ; less black freckling on 

 the wing coverts; below, the dark bars on the tibiae obsolete, the light 

 interspaces wider and paler" {ex Peters, orig. descr.). 



Known only from the type locality — Lancetilla, Honduras. 



Odontophorus melanotis verecundus Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixix, 1929, 

 404 (Lancetilla, Honduras; descr.; crit.). — Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixx, 

 1930, 161 (type spec, in Mus. Comp. Zool.). — Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, Ixxxiv, 1932, 301 (Lancetilla, Honduras). 



Odontophorus erythrops verecundus Peters, Check-list Birds World, ii, 1934, 53 

 (Lancetilla, Honduras). — Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i. No. 1, 

 1942, 268 (syn.; distr.). 



ODONTOPHORUS GUTTATUS (Gould) 



Spotted Wood Quail 



Adfilt male (olive-brown phase). — Forehead, anterior part of crown, 

 upper lores, and superciliary area sepia to dark Saccardo's umber ; antero- 

 median plumes of coronal and occipital crest fuscous-black narrowly 

 tipped with sepia; the posterior and lateral feathers of the crest bright 

 orange-buff; nape and interscapulars sepia with or without an olivaceous 

 tinge, the feathers with pale buffy to whitish shafts, and their vanes 

 abundantly and finely flecked with fuscous ; scapulars and greater upper 

 wing coverts and feathers of the upper back sepia with very large 

 blotches of black (in the case of the coverts these blotches are confined 

 to the inner webs) and the sepia portion incompletely barred with 

 ochraceous-orange to cinnamon-rufous, the shafts whitish; lesser and 

 median upper wing coverts olive-sepia finely barred and vermiculated with 

 blackish, the median ones with buffy white V-shaped tips; secondaries 

 fuscous to dark clove brown, uniform on the inner webs but broadly 

 banded on the outer ones with pale buffy olive-brown to pale sepia, these 

 pale bands, which are broader than the darker interspaces, are thickly 



"Male unknown. 

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