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with the greater part of the outer web Prout's brown finely mottled 

 with blackish ; irregular small bufFy spots on outer edges of secondaries 

 and upper wing icoverts. Upper tail coverts brownish olive, tipped 

 with buff and narrowly barred with black. Throat white; sides of 

 head and neck all around buff, each feather with a fine black tip. 

 Underparts mostly grayish olive lightly vermiculated with dusky ; flanks 

 barred with blackish ; under tail coverts barred ochraceous buff and 

 grayish brown. Wing, 237 ; culmen, 32 ; tarsus, 63 ; middle toe with 

 claw, 38.5. 



This form differs from T. m. ruficeps, as represented by a specimen 

 from La Murelia, Caqueta, Colombia, loaned by Dr. Chapman, in the 

 general olivaceous rather than rufescent coloration of the upperparts, 

 in the practically unbarred condition of the secondaries, the much 

 narrower bars of the back, rump, and wing coverts, and in the paler 

 facial and nuchal regions. In the reduced barring of the upperparts, 

 it seems closer to typical major of Guiana than it does to ruficeps. In 

 major, however, there is even less barring, the coloration is distinctly 

 rufescent, and the forehead is blackish. 



A specimen from Cacagualito, Santa Marta, Colombia (No. 71457 

 Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.) agrees closely with the type of suliensis, merely 

 being somewhat lighter and less vermiculated on the underparts. Hence 

 it is probable that the new form occupies the semi-arid districts of 

 eastern Colombia and western Venezuela in the region from which so 

 many other subspecific forms have been recognized. 



This tinamou was abundant in the forest at the base of the Sierra 

 Perija near the Rio Cogollo. It seemed to be much wilder than the 

 other species of this district, being much more apt to flush, although 

 generaly trusting to its legs. When it did fly it left the ground with 

 a roar of wings like a ruffed grouse, going at breakneck speed in a 

 straight line through the woods. 



Crypturornis* cerviniventris Sclater & Salvin. 



La Azulita, i. 



As only one specimen of this species, and that an imperfect one 

 (Sclat. & Salv. P.Z.S., 1873, p. 512, Lake Valencia, Venezuela), is 

 known, it seems best to give below a description of our bird, which 

 appears referable to it. 



Adult male: Very similar to C. obsoletus, but much darker and 

 smaller. Feathers of the head and neck with dissociated barbules 

 producing a hairy or powdery effect. Color of the head and neck 



♦Oberholser, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., Vol. 35. p. 74, Mch. 20, 1922. 



