I. TINAMUS. 507 



nut, with narrow black barrings ; sides of the head and two obsolete 

 bands on the sides of the nape pale rufesecnt, M'ith brown mottlings ; 

 throat white ; lower part of the fore neck, breast and sides greyish 

 olive ; lower breast and abdomen whitish, with grey zigzag or 

 irregular transverse lines ; flanks wliitish buff, with brown bars ; 

 under tail-coverts rufous l)uff witli irregular olive bars, which are 

 surrounded with a narrow black line ; primaries uniform greyish 

 brown ; primary-coverts and bastard-wing feathers freckled with 

 rufous brown on the outer web ; under wing-coverts greyish olive, 

 with some small blackish markings, the inner ones paler, the last row 

 uniform grey ; tail brown freckled with black : bill in dry skin 

 dusky above, pale below ; feet olive. Total length about 16 inches, 

 wing y, tail ^'75, culmen 1*25, tarsus 2-6. 



Female. Similar to the type. 



Hah. Ecuador, Upper Amazon, Peru (?), and Antioquia. 



a. Ad. sk. Eio Napo, Ecuador (fide Salviii-Godman Coll. 



Terreau.r). (Type of the species.) 



h, c. Ad. sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador (Bitckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. 5 ad. sk. Yquitos, Upper Amazons, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sept. (H. Whitchi). 



e. <S ad. sk. Kemedios, Antioquia, March Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(T. K. Salmon). 



9. Tinamus castaneiceps. (Plate VI.) 



Tinamus major, Cass, (nee Gm.) Pr. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 195 (Tru- 



ando). 

 Tinamus robustus, Lawr. (nee Selat.), Ann. Lxje. A\ Y. vii. p. 477 



(Panama) (1862) ; Selat. Sf Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 371 (Panama) ; 



Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 159 (Santiago de Veragua) ; Selat. ^- Salo. 



Riot. Orn. p. 87 (part.) (1868); Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 218 



(Bugaba). 

 Tinamus ruiiceps, Selat. ^- Salr. Nom. Av. Neotrop. pp. 155, 162, 



sp. 30 (part., Panama, Chiriqui) (1873) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. 



p. 637 (part.) (1877). 



Similar to T. rtifi^ceps, but the upper part of the head of a deeper 

 chestnut ; the forehead, at least in the males, slightly tinged with 

 blackish ; the ear-coverts darker than the pileum, almost black, 

 ■while in T. mficeps they are of the same rufous tinge as the pileum ; 

 the flanks are of a much darker greyish-olive colour. 



Hah. Veragua and Panama. 



a,b. d 2 ad. sk. Volcan de Chiriqui (Aree). Salvin-Godman CoU. 



(Types of species.) 



c. S ad. sk. Bugaba, Chiriqui (Are6). Salvin-Godmau CoU. 



d. cJ ad. sk. Lion Hill Station, Panama Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(McLeannan). 



