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C. H. Lankester Collection : Vara Blanca de Sarapiqui. 



Carnegie Museum : Volcan Turrialba (8,000-9,000 feet), Ujurras de 



Terraba (Carriker). Three skins. 



The single female in the collection seems to be more greenish above 

 than the males, which have a decidedly dark metallic-blue tinge. As 

 Mr. Ogilvie-Grant suggests (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. , XXII, 522), the 

 rufous edgings of the feathers on the lower parts is evidently due to 

 immaturity, as several young birds taken on the Volcan Turrialba 

 (not made into specimens) had it to a great degree, while it even 

 persists after the upper parts have assumed the adult plumage. 



The present bird is confined wholly to the high mountains, prob- 

 ably rarely descending below 5,000 feet, while it is more abundant on 

 the volcanoes at a point near timberline where certain trees and shrubs 

 abound, of the fruit of which it is very fond. I rarely ever saw the 

 bird on the ground, their manner of feeding seeming to be confined 

 to climbing about among the limbs of the trees and picking off the 

 fruit. While feeding they are always very quiet and the mere presence 

 of a person under the tree will not cause them to fly, although they 

 usually cease feeding. Their flesh is tender and of excellent flavor, 

 and were it not for the fact that they inhabit such inaccessible regions 

 they would have been exterminated long ago. 



Family ODONTOPHORID^. 

 12. Dendrortyx hypospodius Salvin. 



(Native name " Chirisqua.") 



Dendrortyx leucophrys Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 140 (Las Cruces, 

 Candelaria Mountains [Zeledon], Dota [J. Carmiol]). — Frantzius, Jour. 

 furOrn., 1869, 373 (Poas and Dota). — BouCARD, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1878, 42 (Volcan de Irazu, 7,000 ft. ). — Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., 

 I, 1887, 128 (La Palma de San Jose). — Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., XXII, 1893, 394 (Costa Rica). 



Dendrortyx hypospodius Salvin, Bull. B. O. C, VI, p. v (Azahar de Cartago 

 [Underwood]). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, III, 1903, 

 290 (Alajuela, Estrella, La Palma de San Jose [Underwood in litt.~\). 



Fleming Collection : Volcan de Irazu (Underwood). 



This bird, though closely related to D. leucophrys, is apparently a 

 good species. .It is a very rare bird in Costa Rica and I have never 

 observed it in life. From the records of its collection, and from what 

 I was able to learn from the natives, it is confined to the higher por- 

 tions of the country, probably from 4,000 feet upwards. 



