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chestnut on the upper tail-coverts. Skins from north-east Brazil ( Para, Pernatn- 

 buco) arc similar in the latter respect, differ, however, by their much paler and 

 duller ochraceons lower surface. Cf. my remarks in Xov. Zool. xiii. 1 1X1(5. p. 385. 



186. Crypturus parvirostris Wagl. 



Cryplurus jtarciro.ilris Wagler, Syst. Ac. Crypturus, sp. 13(1827. — Brasilia). 



Nos. 1219, 1241, 1248, 1269, 1270, 1278, 1286. ? ¥ ad. and iiaiu., Hiimaytha, 

 11, 15, 16, 2n, 21, -j:{. ix. 06. " Iris light In-own, feet and l>ill clear red." 



These specimens are not different in coloration from a series of skins obtained 

 by Mons. Robert in Pernambueo and Baliia, and others collected near Victoria, 

 S.Paulo, by Mr. Adolph Hemjiel, but have considerably shorter wings (106 — 110 

 mm.). C. parvirostris differs from C. tataupa by its smaller size, much smaller and 

 weaker bill, pale brownish chest, and bright red legs. 



Adnlt birds have the top of the head pure sehistaceons, and the upper parts 

 bright chestnut brown ; in young birds the former is mainly pale brown, and the 

 back much duller, and less castaneons. 



187. Crypturus adspersus adspersus (Temm.). 



Tinamus adspersus Temminck. Hist, Nat. /'«/. • / Ball. iii. p. 585 (1815.— Para — coll. Hoffniannsegg). 

 T. undulatus (nee Temm.) Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. lints, iii. 1869. p. L'02 (part. : Borba). 



No. 1301. ? ad., Humaytha, 20. ix. 06. "Iris light brown, feet greyish green, 

 bill greyish black."— Wing 177; bill 29$ mm. 



I gave a review of C. adspersus and its allies in my revision of Spix' types, 

 Abhandl. Mad. Wissensch. Miinchen, Kl. ii. Bd. xxii. 3. 1906. pp. 702—705, 720. 



The present specimen differs from typical examples in having the black cross- 

 markings on the back rather broader and more regular, thus pointing towards 

 ( '. a. radiatus (Gray), which, however, is much brighter cbestuut above, with the 

 bars still broader and blacker. 



188. 'Crypturus bartletti Scl. & Salv. 



Crypturus bartletti Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. Load. 1873. p. 311 (Santa Cruz on the Ucayali river, 

 Eastern Peru). 



No. 1095. $ ad., Humaytha, 16. viii. 06. " Iris light brown, feet greenish 

 yellow, bill grey." — Wing 140 ; bill 22$ mm. 



Nos. 1034, 1035. ? ? ad., Humaytha, 1. viii. 06. "Iris and feet brown, bill 

 greyish brown, paler below."— Wing 142, 145; bill 22A, 23 mm. 



Nos. 1033, . S juv., juv. (not sexed), Humaytha, 1. viii. 06. " Iris 



brown, feet and bill brownish grey." 



These specimens agree exactly with the types in the British Museum. The 

 male has the nape and mantle uniform, while the lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts show irregular black bars on an olive-brown ground ; the inner median 

 and greater wing-coverts are likewise broadly, though not very distinctly, banded 

 with pale buff; the breast is dull ochraceons buff (Uidgw. v. 10), on the sides 

 washed with olive-brown and finely vermiculated with dusky. In the females the 

 whole back is regularly banded with black and olive-brown (No. 1035) or deep 

 ochreous-brown (No. 1034), all the upper wing-coverts (except those along the 

 bend of the wing) have broad buff (No. 1035) or deep ochraceons (No. 1034) 

 cross-bars ; the breast is much deeper, more ochraceons, and uot only the flanks, 



