388 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



chestnut, with short, broken, black bars on each side ; lower breast 

 dull grayish-brown, indistinctly barred with dusky, while the chest is 

 brokenly barred with cinnamon-brown and black, throat dull blackish ; 

 maxilla brown, mandible black. 



Rather common in the thick forests of the Caribbean lowlands, up 

 to about 2,500 feet, extending northwestward along the southern slope 

 of Lake Nicaragua, over to the Pacific slope of the northern part of 

 the country only. 



Habits essentially the same as those of the preceding species. A 

 single nest was observed on the Rio Sicsola, September 21, 1904. It 

 was a slight excavation at the foot of a tree, between two spur roots, 

 lined with leaves and grass and contained four badly incubated eggs. 

 The eggs are creamy-white, unmarked, and shaped very much as the 

 eggs of the Bob-white. Measurements : 40 X 29 mm. 



16. Odontophorus leucolaemus Salvin. 



Odontophorus leucol<£mus Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 161 (Cordillera 

 de Tole, Panama [Arce]). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 140 

 (San Jose [Frantzius and Cooper]). — Prantzius, Jour, fur Orn., 1869, 374 

 (Dota and Candelaria). — Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 128 

 (Naranjo de Cartago). — Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXII, 1893, 

 438 (Dota [J. CarmiolJ). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 

 III, 1903 (Costa Rican references). 



U. S. Nat. Museum : La Estrella. 



Bangs Collection : Volcan de Irazu, Cariblanco, Azahar de Cartago, 



Tenorio (Underwood). 

 Fleming Collection : Azahar de Cartago and Cariblanco de Sarapiqui 



(Underwood). 

 Carnegie Museum : La Estrella de Cartago and La Hondura (Carriker) . 



Two skins. 



These birds, apparently from age, differ much among themselves in 

 the amount of black and white on the breast and chest. Some have 

 numerous white spots on the breast, others have scarcely any ; some 

 have the flanks black, each feather edged with cinnamon-brown, others 

 with the sides brown and the flanks rufous, finely vermiculated with 

 black ; some also have the back and pileum decidedly brown and in 

 others it is quite gray. 



This species seems to prefer the eastern portion of the highlands 

 and the upper part of the Caribbean slope, between the altitudes of 

 3,000 and 6,000 feet. Like all other species of the genus it is an 



