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They affect the forests rather than the more open parts of the country: except

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the European Partridge.
when accompanied by their brood, are usually met with singly or in pairs, and when flushed generally take
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The species are :—

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25. Odontophorus Guianensis : ; i : ; PE XO

26, ————————— marmoratus.

Od. corpore subtis olivaceo-fusco et nigro variegato, his coloribus fascias apud pectus et abdomen efficientibus ;

crisso, et femoribus fuliginoso-nieris.

Under surface mottled olive, brown and black, assuming the form of bars on the breast and abdomen; under tail-

coverts and thighs sooty black.

Ortyx (Odontophorus) marmoratus, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part XI. [Ds IO.

I have not considered it necessary to figure this species, inasmuch as it only differs from O. Guianensis in
having a smaller bill, in having the orbits more extensively denuded of feathers, a more lengthened and

darker crest, and the whole of the under surface dark brown crossed by narrow bands of buff and black:

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the under tail-coverts and thighs also are sooty black.

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This is one of the species referred to as having been discovered in the neighbourhood of Santa Fe de
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gota. The only specimens I have seen, are, one in my own collection, one in that of the Jardin des

D]. Seat inaica ¢ S Y nr 5
Plantes at Paris, and one in the Museum of the Earl of Derby.

27. Odontophorus pachyrhynchus Pl XOX
28. ——— speciosus : : : i : : PE NORV
29. ———______ dentatus . Pl. XXVI.
30. ——_—— tellatus . : : ; : : ; Pl. XXVII.
31. ———____ puttatus . Pl. XXVIII.
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