ODONTOPHORUS COLUMBIANUS, Gould. 
Caraccas Partridg-e. 
Specific Character. 
Od. verticefusco, delicatule nigro adsperso; nucha rufo marmoratd ; striga superciliari incon- 
spicua; guld alba irregulariter nigro guttata prcecipue apud marginem ; corpore subtus 
rufescenti-fusco, plumis singulis notci alba nigro circumdata prope apicem ornatis. 
Crown of the head brown, minutely freckled with black ; back of the neck washed with rufous; 
over each eye an indistinct mottled stripe; throat white, irregularly spotted, especially on 
the sides, with black; upper surface brown, washed with grey on the centre of the feathers, 
each of which is delicately penciled with black, and has a narrow stripe of buff bounded 
on each side by a narrower one of black down the centre ; those of the scapularies and 
wing-coverts have moreover a large patch of rich dark brown on the inner web near the 
tip, bounded above by^ two narrow lines, one of buff, the other of dark brown ; primaries 
brown; secondaries brown, freckled and barred with dark brown, and washed with 
rufous; tertiaries brown, washed with grey and rufous, freckled with black, having a 
broad Y-shaped mark of black near the tip, and broadly margined and tipped internally 
with deep buff; under surface reddish brown, each feather with a large irregularly-shaped 
mark of white margined with black near the tip; under tail-coverts and vent mottled 
reddish brown and sandy buff; bill black; feet lead-colour. 
Total length, 11 inches; bill, 1 ; wing, 5f; tail, 2f; tarsi, Q ; middle toe and nail, 24. 
Odontophorus Columbianus, Gould in Proc. of Zook Soc., May 14, 1850. 
This fine bird has a stouter bill, and is of a larger size than 0. dentatus, but is smaller than 0. Ballmani, 
to which it is nearly allied. 
A fine specimen graces the Museum at Leyden, to which it was transmitted by M. Landsberger, 
Netherlands Consul at Caraccas: another example from, I believe, the same locality, differs in having the 
under surface of a nearly uniform greyish brown, with here and there a few only of the white marks so con¬ 
spicuous in the bird above described; it is also of a somewhat smaller size, but notwithstanding these 
differences, the two birds appear to be one and the same species. 
Habitat. Caraccas. 
The figures are of the natural size. 
