. A hand-book to the game-birds . CHORTYX STODIGSTETHUS. OdontophoriisSpodiostethus, Salvin, Ibis, 1878, p. spodiostethus, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. p. 443 (1893). [Plate XXXIV.) Adult.—Crown of head rusty-brown ; mantle dark grey, edgedwith reddish-brown; lower back and rump thickly mottledwith grey; shoulder-feathers brown with chestnut margins;wing-coverts greyish-brown mixed with buff and blotched withblack ; forehead, eyebrow-stripes, sides of head, and throatbright rust-red; middle of chin and throat ivhitish ; neck, chest,and sides of breast, dark-grey, sha
. A hand-book to the game-birds . CHORTYX STODIGSTETHUS. OdontophoriisSpodiostethus, Salvin, Ibis, 1878, p. spodiostethus, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. p. 443 (1893). [Plate XXXIV.) Adult.—Crown of head rusty-brown ; mantle dark grey, edgedwith reddish-brown; lower back and rump thickly mottledwith grey; shoulder-feathers brown with chestnut margins;wing-coverts greyish-brown mixed with buff and blotched withblack ; forehead, eyebrow-stripes, sides of head, and throatbright rust-red; middle of chin and throat ivhitish ; neck, chest,and sides of breast, dark-grey, shading into buff on the middleof the breast and belly. Total length, 7-5 inches ; wing, 4*9;tail, I8 ; tarsus, 1-4; middle toe and claw, ii5. Range.—Central America ; Panama. IL THE CHESTNUT-ZONED LONG-LEGGED COLIN. RHYN-CHORTYX CINCTUS. Odontophorus citictus, Salvin, Ibis, 1876, p. 397 ; Rowley, iii. p. 39, pi. Ixxxvi. (1878). * No specimens in which the sex has been ascertained have been ex-amined. PLA7S / M-. LONG-LEGGED COLIN. THE MEGAPODES, BRUSH-TURKEYS, AND MALEOS. 163 Rhynchortyx dnctiis, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. (1893). Adult.—Differs from R. spodiostethus in having the crown,mantle, chesty and sides of the breast deep 7iifous; the eyebrow-stripes and sides of head dull olive-broivn ; a white band fromthe base of the upper mandible to the eye, and continued behindthe eye along the sides of the neck; the chin and throat white;and the rest of the under-parts white, barred with blacky exceptdown the middle of the body. Total length, 7*5 inches; wing,4-6; tail, 17; tarsus, 1-3; middle toe and claw, 1-15. Eange.—Central America; Veragua. THE MEGAPODES, BRUSH-TURKEYS, ANDMALEOS. FAMILY MEGAPODHD^. Distinguished by having the hind toe or hallux on the samelevel as the other toes^ and its basal phalanx as long as that ofthe third toe. The oil-gland at the base of the tail nude. Eggs deposited in the sand or in a mound raised by one or
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