]. TINAMUS. 503 



Magoua, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 507, pi. 24 (1778). 



Great Tiuamou, Lath. Syn. ii. '2, p. 724, n. 1 (1783). 



Tetrao major, Gm. S. N. i. 2, p. 767, n. 03 (1788). 



Tinamus brasiliensi.s, Lath. Lid. Orn. ii. p. 633, n. 1 (1790) ; Temm. 



Piy. et Gallin. iii. pp. 562, 748 (1815) ; tsteph. Gen. Zool. xi. 2, 



p. 406 (1810) ; Temm. PI. Col., genre Tinamou, sp. G (part.) 



(1826) ; Less. Man. d' Orn. n. p. 200 (part.) (1828) ; id. Tr. d'Orn. 



p. 512 (18.-'.1); id. Compl. de Buff. 2nrl ed. 0("s. p. 238 (1838) ; 



Temm. PL Col. i. Tabl. Meth. p. 87 (1839); Pelz. Orn. Bras. 



pp. 201, 453, Iv (Matogrosso, Guapore, Cachoeira da Bananeira, 



Borba, Jlio Negro, Marabitanas, Barra do Rio Negro) (1871) ; 



id. Lbis, 1873, p. 37. 

 ? Tinamus bnisiliana, Bonn. Enc. Meth. i. p. 224, n. 1, pi. 89. f. 3 



(1701). 

 Crypturus major, Illiy. Prodr. Mamm. et Av. p. 245 (1811). 

 Cryptura magoua, Vieill. N. D. xxsiv. p. 104 (1819). 

 Crypturus serratus, Wagl. Si/st. Av., gen. Crypturus, sp. 2 (part.) 



(1827). 

 Tinamus major, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. iii. p. 524, n. 3 (1844) ; Bp. Compt. 



Bend. xlii. p. 881, n. 312 (1856), xliii. p. 573 (note) (1856) ; Salv. 



Ibis, 1861, p. 356 {egg) ; G. P. Gr. List Gallimc Brit. Mm. p. 96 



(syn., but not specim. a) (1867) ; id. Hand-list, iii. p. 3, n. 9858 



(1871) ; Sclat. Sf Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 152, n. 5 (1873) ; 



Schkff. Mas. P.-B., Tinami, p. 13 (part.) (1880) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. 



B. p. 2 (1889) ; Hartert, Kat. Vogelsaminl. p. 206, n. 3092 (1891). 

 Crypturus brasiliensis, Thienem. Fortpflanz. p. 23, t. v. f. 2 (1845). 

 Trachj-pelmus major. Cab. in Schomb. Pels, in Brit. Guian.'m. p. 749 



(1848); Licht. Nom. Av. p. 87 (1854); ? Heine u. Rchnw. Norn. 



Mas. Hein. Orn. p. .303 (Brazil) (1890). 

 Tracliypelmus brasiliensis, Burm. Si/st. Ueb. iii. p. 325 (1856) ; 



Nalhus. Zeifschr. tcissensch. Zool. xxi. pp. 352, 354, t. xxvi. ff. 17, 



18 {tigg structure) (1871); id. J. f. O. 1879, p. 2.58; Mangels- 



dorff, MB. dt'i/fsch. Ver. Schutze, 1890, pp. 155-164, pi. ii. 

 Tinamus subcristatus, Pelz. {nee Cab.) Orn. Bras. p. 291, note 3 (San 



Joaquim and Barra do Rio Xegro) (1871). 

 Tinamus cristatellus, Xa/t. Cat. AlS., teste Pelzeln, I. c. 



This species is to be recognized by the bright rufous-cinnamon 

 colour of the upper part of the head, tinged with greyish on the 

 forehead of the male, combined with the very light, mostly white 

 underparts. 



Adult male. Upper parts olive, with irregular black bar-Like 

 marks ; upper part of the head and occipital crest rufous cinnamon ; 

 forehead, lores, and feathers behind tlie eyes greyish ; ear-coverts 

 chestnut-brown ; sides of the head and neck rufcscent, the sides of 

 the head and nape with narrow dusky bars, the sides of the neck 

 with dusky stripes along the middle of the feathers ; throat white, 

 fore neck and upper breast dull buff with undulated cross dusky 

 lines ; remainder of the lower parts buffy white, nearly uniform 

 along the middle of the breast and abdomen ; sides, Hanks, and 

 tibial feathers Avith irregular dusky bars ; under tail-coverts 

 rufesccnt, with irregular olive bars, and these with two narrow 

 irregular black cross lines, one anteriorly and the other posteriorly ; 

 upper wing-coverts like the back ; primaries uniform greyish ; 



