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ODONTOPHORUS COLUMBIANUS, Gould.
Caraccas Partridge.
S p e c if ic C h aracter.
Od. verticefusco, delicatuli nigro adsperso; nucha rufo marmorata; striga superciliari incon-
spicua; g u la alba irreg u la rity nigro g u tta td prcecipue apud marginem; corpora subths
rufescenti-fmco, plumis singulis nota alba nigro circumdata prope apicem ornatis.
Crown o f 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 o f which is delicately penciled with black, and has a narrow stripe o f buff bounded
on each side by a narrower one o f black down the centre ; those o f the scapularies and
wing-coverts have moreover a large patch o f rich dark brown on the inner web near the
tip, bounded above by two narrow lines, one of buff, the other o f 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 o f 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 o f 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, U inches; bill, X ; wing, 51; tail, 2 1 ; tarsi, 2 ; middle toe and nail, 21.
Odontophorus Columbianus, Gould in Proc. o f Zool. Soc., May 14, 1850.
T his fine bird has a stouter bill, and is of a larger size than 0 . dentatus, but is smaller than 0 . Balhmam,
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 conspicuous
in the hird 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.