502 



TINAMID^. 



Adult male. Similar to T. robustus but larger, •with the barrings 

 on the upper parts more regular and broader ; upper part of head 

 and nape olive-browD ; on the sides of occiput and nape two distinct 

 light buff longitudinal bands ; sides of head varied with olive- 

 brown and brown-black ; throat white, broad])' surrounded below 

 with rufescejit ; lower neck and breast grejish olive ; flanks 

 rufescent, barred with brown ; middle of the abdomen greyish 

 oHve ; under tail-coverts buff, varied with olive-brown on the 

 edges ; wings like the back, but browner, especially the secondaries, 

 which have a rufescent tinge ; primaries, primary-coverts, and 

 bastard-wing uniform slaty black ; under wing-coverts blackish, 

 edged with olive-brown, the last row uniform slate-grey; tail olive- 

 brown, irregularly freckled with black and with some rufescent- 

 browu markings : " iris reddish brown ; feet light plumbeous ; biU 

 bluish black" (D'Azara). Total length about 20 inches, wing 1 0-50, 

 tail 4'50, culmen 1*42, tarsus 2-9. 

 Female. Similar to the male. 



Immature birds have the upper parts more or less dotted with 

 whitish small spots. 



Young in down. Upper part of the head anteriorly pale brown- 

 buff, posteriorly golden buff-chestnut ; across the top of the head 

 a chestnut band, connected with a chestnut band on both sides of 

 the occiput ; sides of the head pale brown-buff ; a line through 

 the lores, another from the base of the lower mandible joined to a 

 patch on the auricular region, nape and sides of the neck deep 

 chestnut ; two snow-white patches on the sides of the nape ; inter- 

 scapular region greyish buff, with obsolete cross dusky bars, the 

 hairy tips of the feathers chestnut ; scapulars chestnut ; lower back 

 and rump pale greyish buif-brown, with the hidden part of the 

 feathers buif ; throat white, but the tips of the feathers, especially 

 on the lower parts, dusky ; lower fore neck and breast chestnut, 

 changing into dull whitish on the abdomen. 



The bird figured on Plate VII. is one of the types of T. guttu- 

 latus, Gr. 



Hah. Paraguay and Southern Brazil. 



a. Ad. sk. Rio Parana, Brazil (^o^«-s). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



h. 5 ad. sk. Sao Paulo, Brazil \joyner). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c-g- 6 2 ad., imm., Rio de Janeiro. A. Fry, Esq. [P.]. 



et pull. sk. 

 h, i. S 2 imm. st. Brazil (Leadbeater). Purchased. 



(Types of T. guttulatus, Gr.) 



5. Tinamus major. 



PMacucagua, Marcgr. Hist. A v. Bras. p. 213: WUluahb. Orn. 



p. 163, t. 26. 

 ? Yambou, Marcyr. op. cit. p. 192. 

 PPerdix brasiliensis, Briss. Orn. i. p. 227, n. 4 (1760). 

 PPerdix major brasiliensis, Briss. Orn. i. p. 227, n. 5 (1760). 

 Tinamou de Cayenne, DAubent. PI. Enl. 476. 



