40 BULLETIN 133, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



NOTHOPROCTA PERDICARIA PERDICARIA (Kittlitz) 



Crypturus perdicarius Kittlitz, Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, 

 Divers Savan.s, vol. 1, Livr. 2, 1830. p. 193, pi. 12. (Valparaiso, Chile.") 



A female taken at Concon north of Valparaiso, Chile, on April 

 27, 1921, was prei^ared as a skin, Avhile another, secured at the same 

 time, was preserved as a skeleton. Conover-^ has shown that the 

 tinamou of southern Chile differs from that of more northern locali- 

 ties in darker coloration and more brownish upper parts, with 

 undersurface clay color instead of gray, and has named it N. f. 

 sanhorni (type locality Mafil, Valdivia). 



Conover considers Nothoprocta coquimbica Salvadori,^* named 

 from a bird taken at Coquimbo by Doctor Coppinger, in the month 

 of June, indistinguishable from true perdicaria. According to the 

 ranges assigned by Salvadori perdicaria is found in northern and 

 central Chile, while coquimbica occurs in South Chile.^^ Mani- 

 festly the ranges as given are interchanged as Coquimbo lies 350 

 miles north of Valparaiso. The bird from Concon, while coming 

 from within a few miles of the type locality of perdicaria^ has the 

 breast decidedly grayer than a small series of old skins in the 

 United States National Museum, from near Santiago, Chile, in 

 this resembling the description of coquiniMca, but, on the other 

 hand it is blacker above, with paler, browner markings than is 

 shown in the plate of coquimbica given by Salvadori. 



On April 27 I encountered several of these tinamou in a steep- 

 sided brush-clothed gulch in the rolling hills, south of the mouth 

 of the Rio Aconcagua at Concon. Some ran aside, as I approached, 

 to hide in the brush, while others rose with excited whistling calls 

 and dashed away behind cover of trees. Others were noted on 

 April 28. In the female bird noted above, the maxilla, save on the 

 posterior cutting edge, was fuscous-black; remainder of maxilla 

 and mandible drab-gray, with the tip of the mandible shaded with 

 fuscous; iris Rood's brown; tarsus and toes slightly duller than 

 chamois ; nails fuscous. 



Tinamou were offered for sale in the markets of Valparaiso in 

 considerable numbers, and were sold in the streets in pairs by itiner- 

 ant vendors. 



RHYNCHOTUS RUFESCENS PALLESCENS Kothe 



Rhi/nchottis pallescens Kothe, Joiirn. flir Oriiith., January, 1907, p. 164. 

 (Tornquist, Buenos Aires.) 



The southern, gray race of the rufous-winged tinamou, distin- 

 guished by its grayer coloration and larger size from the typical 



" According to Chrostowski (Ann. Zool. Mus. Pol. Hist. Nat., vol. I, no. 1, Sept. 30, 

 1921, p. 18), Kittlitz' type specimen was killed near Valparaiso on Apr. 3, 1827. 

 2«Auk, 1924, p. 334. 



^ Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. 27, 1895, p. 554, p. 15. 

 '^ See Brabourne and Chubb, Birds of South America, 1912, p. 6. 



