386 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



13. Eupsychortyx leylandi (Moore). 



(Native name " Perdiz." ) 



Ortyx leylandi Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, p. 62 (Omoa to Comayagua, 

 Honduras). — LAWRENCE, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 139 (San Jose and 

 Barranca [Carmiol]). — F'rantzius, Jour, fur On., 1869, 373 ( Heredia and 

 Barba). — Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1878, 42 (Valley of San Jose). 



Colinns leylandi Cherrie, Auk, 1892, 329 (San Jose, common resident). — 

 Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 128 (San Jose and Alajuela). 



Eupsychortyx leylandi Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXII, 1893, 4 11 

 (Costa Rica [Endres, J. Carmiol and Capt. Dow], Irazu District [Rogers]). — 

 Underwood, Ibis, 1896, 449 (Miravalles, common). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, III, 1903 (Estrellade Cartago [Underwood]). 



U. S. Nat. Museum : Santo Domingo de San Mateo (Ridgway); 



Alajuela, San Jose* 

 Bangs Collection: San Jose, Tenorio (Underwood). 

 C. H. Lankester Collection : Cachi. 

 Carnegie Museum: Miravalles (Carriker). One skin. 



A common bird throughout the plateau region and the western slope, 

 extending over Nicoya and Guanacaste wherever suitable conditions 

 are to be found. Like our Bob-white it is a bird of the fields and culti- 

 vated districts and its habits are essentially the same, even its call being 

 quite like that of the Virginian Quail. 



Key to the Costa Rican Species of Odontophorus. 



a. Lower parts chestnut-brown, unmarked, throat black. melanolis. 



aa. Lower parts spotted with white or vermiculated with black, or else breast mostly 

 black. 

 b. Throat black, streaked with white, lower parts spotted with white. 



c. Lower parts grayish-brown, white spots edged with black. guttatus. 



cc. Lower parts dull chestnut-brown, white spots small, not edged with 



black. veraguensis. 



bb. Throat concolorous with lower parts, or else with a conspicuous white patch. 



c. Chin, malar region, and lores chestnut-brown, lower parts grayish-brown, 



freckled w th black and buff. castigatus. 



cc. Chest and breast almost wholly black, with scattering white spots on 



breast, partly concealed, throat with a white patch. leticolamus. 



14. Odontophorus castigatus Bangs. 



Odontophorus marmoratus Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1 887 (Las 

 Trojas and Pozo Azul de Pirris). — Ciierrie, Expl. Zool. en C. R., 1891-2, 

 1893, 54 (Boruca, Buenos Aires, common, but difficult to secure). — Salvin 

 and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, III, 1903, 309 (Costa Rica, Zeledon's 

 reference). 



