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black line leads back from the base of the bill to divide the gray 

 anterior area in two portions. There is also a line of chestnut 

 bordered narrowly above and below with black, that extends across 

 the lores back beneath the eye through the auricular area. In the 

 female chick the anterior crown area is slightly paler brown than 

 the posterior section with only a faint, narrow median line. The 

 brown lateral stripe is restricted on the loral region, and is reduced 

 posteriorly to a brown spot back of the eye. The pattern of the 

 markings in general outline is like that of the male but is only 

 lightly indicated. The differences described need further check to 

 determine whether they indicate two color phases that occur without 

 regard to sex. 



A set of 6 eggs of this subspecies taken at the base of Cerro 

 Chucanti in the Serrania de Maje, Province of Panama, March 10, 

 1950, measures 62.8x47.3, 62.7x48.2, 61.6x45.9, 60.0x48.4, 

 58.4x47.0, and 57.6x45.7 mm. Another set, also of 6 eggs, collected 

 at Jaque, Darien, March 25, 1946, measures 60.3x46.5, 59,4x46.0, 

 59.0x45.9, 58.5x48.6, 56.8x45.0 and 56.0x43.6 mm. Color in 

 the two sets varies from glaucous-blue to light glaucous-blue. The 

 shells of two eggs from Tacarcuna Village, from which the young 

 described above had hatched, were lumiere blue, a brighter color. 



On the Rio Cangandi, back of Mandinga, Charles O. Handley, Jr., 

 recorded eggs near hatching May 17, 1959, and a day-old chick, 

 May 21. He found a nest with 4 eggs at the Mandinga airstrip on 

 May 28. Near Armila, San Bias, a male and a female taken 

 February 24 and 25, 1963, were breeding. 



Lionel Wafer, surgeon and traveler, undoubtedly refers to this 

 race of the great tinamou in his account of Darien (Isthmus of 

 America, 1699, p. 115) when he writes, "There is also a Russet- 

 colour'd Landbird shap'd not unlike a Partridge; but has a longer 

 Neck and Legs, yet a short Tail. He runs most on the ground, and 

 seldom flies. His flesh is very good meat." 



The Cuna Indians at Armila called these birds putu. 



NOTHOCERCUS BONAPARTEI FRANTZII (Lawrence): Highland Tinamou; 



Perdiz Serrana. 



Tinamits jrantzii Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vol. 9, 1869, p. 140. 

 (Cervantes, Costa Rica.) 



Size of a small domestic fowl; slightly smaller and definitely 

 brighter brown than the great tinamou. 



Description. — Length 350 to 400 mm. Adult (sexes alike), crown 



