506 TINAJI1D.E, 



7. Tinamus latifrons. 



This species has a pendent occipital crest like T. subcristatus, from 

 which it differs in having the slaty-black colour on the forehead 

 more extended, covering entirely the anterior half of the crown, the 

 rufous-chestnut colour of the occiput and crest darker and confined 

 to the edges of the feathers, which are otherwise blackish ; the 

 secondaries of a darker brown freckled with black, with no reddish 

 tinge ; the upper parts olive-brown, with broader black barrings, 

 and the lower of a greyish olive, more uniformly covered with 

 irregular and broader dusky bars ; under tail-coverts olive-brown, 

 variegated with rufous-buff: upper mandible dusky, the lower 

 pale ; feet in dry skin dark olive. Total length about 17 inches, 

 wing 9-8, tail 3-10, culnien 1-2, tarsus 2-5. 



The second specimen, mentioned below, apparently immature, has 

 the upper parts dotted with rufous-buff, the black bar-like marks 

 on the upper parts broader, and the wings tinged with rufous 

 brown. 



Ifab. Western Ecuador. 



a, b. Ad. et imm. Balzar Mts., Ecuador [Illing- Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 sk. worth). (Types of species.) 



8. Tinamus ruficeps. 



Tinamus peruvianus, Mus. Bru.v. ; £p. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 573 



(note) (1856) ; G. R. Or. List Gallime Brit. Mus. p. 101, n. 31 



(1867) ; id. Hand-list, iii. p. 4, n. 9879 (1871) ; Gieb. Tkes. Orn. 



iii. p. 637 (1877) ; Dubois, Mem. Sac. Zool. Fr. 1894, p. 404 



( = ruficeps, Sclat. ^ Salv.)*. 

 Tinamus ruficeps, Sclat. 4* Salv. Nom. Av. Neotrop. pp. 152, 162, 



sp. 30 (part., Ecuador) (1873) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 637 (1877) ; 



Sclat. Sf Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 548 (Remedios) ; Tacz. Orn. Per. 



iii. p. 292 (Monterico), Tables, p. 136 (1886). 

 Tinamus major, Tacz. {nee Gm.) P. Z. S. 1874, p. 563 (Monterico) ; 



Schleg. Mus. P.-B., Tinami, pp. 13-17 (part., Iquitos) (1880). 

 Tinamus major ruficeps, Schleg. Mus. P.-B., Tinami, p. 15 (1880). 



Similar to T. major, from which it differs principally in constantly 

 wanting the occipital crest, and in having the lower parts not so 

 whitish, the breast and the remainder of the lower parts being 

 more olive-greyish ; besides, the tibial feathers have constantly 

 dusky bars, which are usually wanting in T. major. 



Adult (type). Upper parts olive with irregular black bars, second- 

 aries more reddish brown ; upper part of the head bright chestnut, 

 a shade paler on the forehead ; ear-coverts chestnut ; nape chest- 



* Eecently M. Dubois has identified T. peruvianus, Bp., with T. ruficeps ; 

 I add Bonaparte's description, which is too incomplete and too vague to be 

 taken into consideration : — 



" Minor, brunneo-nifus, dorso alisque inaculis sparsis nigris ; subtus pallidior, 

 olivascens, niaculis nullis. Long. tot. 420 milliin., rostri 48, alse 235, tarsi 60." 



