168 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



it would be idle to hazard an opinion, beyond observing that it could scarcely 

 be either C. adspersus or C. idoneus. 



Family ODONTOPHORID^. Quail. 



67. Eupsychortyx cristatus cristatus (Linnaeus). 



Eupsychortyx cristatus cristatus Todd^ Auk, XXXVII, 1920, 214 (Rio Hacha; 



crit.). 



Eight specimens: Rio Hacha and Fonseca. 



The capture of these birds extends the range of this species to the 

 Goajira Peninsula and Rio Rancheria Valley in Colombia, where the 

 conditions are similar to those it enjoys in Venezuela. The specimens 

 are not typical, however, showing unmistakable signs of admixture 

 with the leucopogon strain. Males have rather more antique brown 

 feathers in the superciliaries than is usual with cristatus, while in fe- 

 males the buffy color of the under parts is paler, and the markings of 

 the throat tend to streaks rather than to scale-like feather-edgings. 



This quail is an abundant bird in the scrub around Rio Hacha, espe- 

 cially along the river in the more fertile and to some extent irrigated 

 lands. 



68. Eupsychortyx leucopogon littoralis Todd. 



Eupsychortyx leucopogon (not Ortyx leucopogon Lesson) Allen, Bull. Am. 



Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 127 (Bonda). 

 Eupsychortyx cristatus littoralis Todd, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XXX, 



1917, 6 (Mamatoco; orig. descr. ; type in coll. Carnegie Mus.). — Apolinah 



Maria, Bol. Soc. Cien. Nat. Inst., La Salle, VI, 1917, 147 (reprint orig.. 



descr.). 

 Colinus cristatus littoralis Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVI, 1917, 



198, in text (Bonda; crit.). 

 Eupsychortyx leucopogon littoralis Todd, Auk, XXXVII, 1920, 211, pi. V, fig. 



7 (Santa Marta localities and references; diag. ; crit.). 



Fifteen specimens : Bonda, Cacagualito, Mamatoco, Gaira, and Santa 

 Marta. 



As shown by the writer in the monographic paper above cited, this- 

 form has all the ear-marks of a hybrid between E. cristatus cristatus 

 and E. leucopogon decoratus, showing the excessive amount of indi- 

 vidual variation which such a hybrid might be expected to do. Such 

 an explanation of its characters, however, seems inadmissible in view 

 of the circumstance that its range is cut off to the eastward from con- 

 tact with that of cristatus by the strip of Tropical Zone forest which 



