Odontophorus

Also, the Venezuelan wood quail (Odontophorus columbianus), an endemic of Venezuela, is only present in this ecoregion in an isolated area and in the western Cordillera de la Costa.

Venezuelan Andes montane forests 2008

Among those members of the winged tribe, who show no disposition to soar into the regions of air, we find here the turcassa, a pigeon with richly-shaded plumage; the beautifully speckled toothed fowl (_Odontophorus speciosus_, Tsch.), and short-tailed grass fowl, or crake, [90] whose flesh when cooked is delicately white and finely flavored.

Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853