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Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, iii, 1902, 22 (Boquete, Chiriqui, w. 

 Panama, 4,000-5,800 feet; crit.).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., 

 Aves, iii, 1903, 312 (Dota, Barranca, and Las Cruces de Candelaria, Costa 

 Rica ; Boquete and Volcan de Chiriqui, w. Panama) .— Carkiker, Ann. Carnegie 

 Mus., vi, 1910, 389 (Volcan de Trazii and Ujurras de Terraba, Costa Rica; 

 crit.).— Griscom, Auk, 1, 1933, 298 (El Copey de Dota, Costa Rica; crit.). 



[Odontophorus] veraguensis Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 272, No. 9762.— Sharpe, 

 Hand-list, i, 1899, 47. 



Odontophorus consohrinus Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 469 (Mira- 

 dor, Veracruz; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



[Odontophorus] consohrinus Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 47. 



Odontophorus guttatus matudae Brodkorb, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 

 No. 401, 1939, 4 (Mount Madre Vieja, Chiapas, Mexico, alt. 7S0 meters; descr. ; 

 crit.; type spec, in Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan). — Hellmayr and Conover, 

 Cat. Birds Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 280 (crit.; syn, ; distr.). 



ODONTOPHORUS LEUCOLAEMUS Salvin 



White-throated Wood Quail 



Adult (sexes alike) (olive-brown phase). — Forehead fuscous more 

 or less flecked with white (the white being the visible basal parts of 

 the feathers) ; crown and occiput fuscous, the feathers terminally and 

 laterally stippled with raw umber ; nape, interscapulars, and lesser upper 

 wing coverts dark raw umber finely stippled and vermiculated with fuscous, 

 the nape washed with chestnut-brown; median upper wing coverts like 

 the lesser ones but flecked with pale tawny-buff, these flecks proximally 

 margined with blackish; greater upper coverts and scapulars similar but 

 with these dark-bordered pale spots larger and more numerous, and the 

 general ground color more rufescent — bright chestnut-brown — and tipped 

 with pale tawny-buff; secondaries dark clove brown to fuscous on the 

 inner webs which are very faintly speckled with chestnut-brown; bright 

 chestnut-brown blotched and mottled with blackish and with light 

 ochraceous-buif on the outer webs; primaries dark clove brown to 

 fuscous; a line of feathers across the upper back just posterior to the 

 interscapulars like the latter but with large blotches of black subterminally ; 

 lower back like the interscapulars but somewhat paler — Saccardo's umber 

 to sepia in ground color ; rump similar but washed with chestnut-brown ; 

 upper tail coverts rich, bright chestnut-brown mottled and freckled with 

 blackish and with cinnamon-tawny; rectrices fuscous marginally and 

 terminally freckled with chestnut-brown ; lores, circumocular area, cheeks, 

 auriculars, chin, sides of throat, entire breast, and uppermost part of 

 abdomen black; middle of throat white (sometimes wholly black), the 

 white often mixing with the black on the sides of the throat and chin; 

 a small but variable amount of white showing through on the black breast ; 

 sides, flanks, and under tail coverts like the lower back and rump, be- 

 coming more richly tinged with chestnut-brown posteriorly, abdomen 

 similar but duller and darker — mummy brown faintly and finely barred 



