ODONTOPHORUS COLUMBIANUS,

Caraccas Partridge.

Gould.

Speciric Cyaracter.
Od. vertice fusco, delicatulé nigro adsperso : ha rufo ‘morata od liane e
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spicua ; gula alba irregularitér nigro guttata precipue apud marginem ; corpore subtius

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rufescenti-fusco, plumes singulis nota alba nigro circumdatd 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 V-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; hell, 1; weng, 5¢; tail, 2; tarsi, 2; middle toe and nail, 2:.

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Odontophorus Columbanus, Gould in Proe. of Zool. Soc., May 14, 1850.

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to which it is nearly allied.

A fine specimen graces the Museum at Leyden,
Netherlands Consul at Caraccas: another example from,
brown, with here anc
4 somewhat smaller size,

to which it was transmitted by M. Landsberger,
I believe, the same locality, differs in having the
1 there a few only of the white marks so con-

under surface of a nearly uniform greyish bat notwimetanairenetens
spicuous in the bird above described ; it 18 also of

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differences, the two birds appear to be one and the same sj
Habitat. Caraccas.

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