TINAMUS, 451 
Our Veraguan specimen and one from the Escondido River are reddish in tint 
and darker than the other birds included by Count Salvadori under the heading of 
T. fuscipennis, and seem to us really more distinct from 7. fuscipennis than the latter 
is from TJ. robustus. 
The type of Z. salvini, from Carrillo in Costa Rica, appears at first sight to be a 
fully-plumaged adult. The characters given are: the small size (wing 7-2 inches), the 
rufous barring on the outer webs of the secondaries, and some other slight differences 
in the colour of the upper breast and abdomen. All these peculiarities, however, are 
due to immaturity, as we have learnt from two adult specimens subsequently received 
from the same locality, these having the wing measuring from 9:5 to 9:7 inches in 
length. One of the latter birds has the breast uniform grey, and the other barred with 
buff as in the type of 7. salvini. 
In this pair the female is coarsely marked, the breast is of a browner shade, and the 
abdomen is more fulvous, while the male is decidedly greyer below and has a whiter 
abdomen. ‘The black bars on the flanks and thighs, too, are more strongly marked in 
the female than in the male. 
_ There are specimens from Northern Ecuador in the British Museum, collected by 
Messrs. Miketta and Flemming, that we cannot separate from 7. fuscipennis. 
Mr. Richmond says that this Tinamou is rather common in the forest on the 
Escondido River: those shot were extremely fat, the flesh being white and 
tender ’. 
3. Tinamus castaneiceps. 
Tinamus major (nec Gm.), Cass. Proc. Acad. Philad. 1860, p. 195 
Tinamus robustus (nec Scl.), Lawr. Ann, Lye. N.Y. vii. p. 477°; Sel. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. Br’; 
Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 159*; 1870, p. 218°. 
Tinamus ruficeps (pt.), Scl. & Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. pp. 152, 162°. 
Tinamus castaneiceps, Salvad. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxvii. p. 507, t.67; Bangs, Auk, 1901, 
p-. 356°. 
TL. robusto similis, sed ubique saturatior, et notwo maculis nigris crebrius fasciatim notato; pileo sordide 
vinaceo-castaneo distinguendus. Long. tota circa 13-0, ale 8-8, caude 2°8, culm. 1°35, tarsi 2°5. (Deser. 
femine typ. ex Volcan de Chiriqui. Maus. nostr.) 
Hab. Costa Rica, Pozo Azul (Underwood); Panama, Bugaba, Chiriqui>’, Santiago 
de Veragua* (Arcé), Divala (Brown §), Lion Hill (M‘Leannan 23 7),—Cotomsta, 
Rio-Truando (Wood 1). 
Count Salvadori’ has separated the Red-headed Tinamou of Panama from the 
southern TZ. ruficeps, on account of its darker chestnut crown, blackish ear-coverts, 
and darker greyish-olive flanks. We have specimens from several places in Panama, 
and Mr. Bangs has received seven examples, including both sexes, from Divala, 
shot in November and December ®. It occurs also in Costa Rica, as we have received 
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