ODONTOPH ORUS SP EKCIOSU Ss, Tschudi.

Rufous-breasted Partridge.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

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QO. pileo plumis elongatis obscure fuscis ; regionibus superciliaribus nioro et albo. maculatis.:

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gula aterrima ; dorso fusco, lineolis obscuris transversalibus numerosis ; plumarum scapo albo ;

remigibus nigris ; parapteris negro et flavo maculatis ; crisso et uropygro dorso dilutiorzbus ;
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pectore abdomineque cinnamomeis.’—Tschudi.

Crown of the head very dark brown ; over the eye an interrupted line of white streaks ; throat
black; back brown with numerous transverse indistinct lines or freckles of black, and with
a line of white down the centre; wings similarly marked, and with an oval spot of
buff, bounded posteriorly with black at the tip of each of the coverts; primaries dark
brown, freckled with deep sandy buff; scapularies black, broadly margined on their inner
webs with deep buff; chest and abdomen cinnamon-red ; rump and thighs brown, freckled
with black ; bill black ; feet lead-colour.

bill, 2; wing, 51; tatl, 2; tarsi, 2; meddle toe and nar, 22.

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Total length, 101 inches ;
Odontophorus specrosus, [schudi, in Wiegm. Archiv. Naturg. 1843, p. . Fauna Peruana,

981. Taf. xxxiiii— Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p.513, Odontophorus, sp. 8.

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Tuts species, like the O pachyrhynchus, was discovered by the celebrated Peruvian traveller M. Tschudi,

who has thus added two highly interesting species to this section of the family.
with a throat mark of the deepest black ; it is about

It is distinguished from all |

the others by its richly coloured chest of cinnamon-red,
the size of O. Guianensis, and like that bird dwells in the midst of the hottest forests ; but even there, says
M. Tschudi, it is seldom met with.

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In a fine example from Peru, now in the possession of the Hai y; E

saving them very appar sterior to it.
over the eye, obliterating the white streaks above that organ, but leaving them very apparent posterior to
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mp . - o the rivers Avnamayo and Chauchomayo in Feru.
Habitat. The hot forests bordering the rivers Aynamayo and Ch ay

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