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Colinus nigrogularis

[edit] Identification

22cm. Male - mottled brown crown, black in front of eyes, black throat separated from black eye-stripe by broad whitish stripe passing through ear region and down neck, underparts "scaly" black and white pattern, upperparts patterned with buff, brown, and black, brownish crowns, white eye-stripe extending from forehead down the sides of the neck. Female - buffy chin and upper throat, nape feathers edged grey, ear feathers streaked buff, white breast with dark shaft-streaks and cross-bars with two rows of terminal white spots.

[edit] Distribution

Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.

[edit] Taxonomy

There are 4 subspecies:

• C. n. nigrogularis
• C. n. persiccus
• C. n. caboti
• C. n. segoviensis

[edit] Habitat

Dry shrubland and seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, brush borders.

[edit] Behaviour

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