508 TINAMID^. 



10. Tinamus guttatus. 



Crypturus guttatus, Natt. MS. ; Thienem. Furtpjlanz. p. 24 (egg) 



(1845). 

 Tiuamus guttatus, Natt. Cat. MS. ; Peh. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1863, 



p. 1126; Natt. ibid. p. 1128 (1863) ; 6. B. Gr. List Gallince Brit. 



Mus. p. 101, n. 33 (1867); Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 292, 4.53, Iv 



(Borba, S. Carlos, Rio Vaupe, Cachoira de Panore, Para) (1871) ; 



G. R. Gr. Hand-list, iii. p. 4, n. 9864 (1871) ; Sclat. ^ Salv. 



P. Z. S. 1873, p. 310 (Chamicuros ; eggs) ; iid. Nomencl. Av. 



Neotrop. p. 152, sp. 7 (Amaz. super.) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 636 



(1877) ; Schleg. Mus. P.-B., Tinami, p. 12 (1880) ; Tacz. Orn. Per. 



iii. p. 295, Tables, p. 106 (1886) ; Pelz. u. Lor. Ann. naturh. Hofmus. 



iii. p. 51 (types) (1888); Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H. ii. p. 112 



(Bolivia) (1889). 



Easily distinguished by its small size, and by the wings more or 

 less thickly dotted with whitish buff. 



Adult male (cotype from Para). Upper parts olive-brown, back 

 redder ; lower back, rump, and upper part of the wing near the back 

 with irregular broadish black bands ; wings thickly dotted with 

 white ; upper part of the head blackish brown, more greyish on the 

 forehead ; sides of the head browuish posteriorly, with the middle 

 part of the neck, all round, brown, varied with rufous spots, and 

 black marks on the edges of the feathers ; throat white ; lower 

 part of the fore neck and sides olive, changing into reddish or 

 buthsh white on the breast ; middle of the abdomen white : flanks 

 buff, with irregular dusky bars ; under tail-coverts olive-brown, 

 along the middle rufous-chestnut, on both webs varied with dusky 

 marks ; upper tail-coverts with narrow irregular whitish bars at 

 the tip and obsolete blackish transverse lines ; secondaries olive- 

 brown, darker than the upper wing-coverts, freclcled with brown, and 

 marked with white on the edge of the outer webs ; primaries uniform 

 greyish brown ; under wing-coverts greyish brown, the last row purer 

 and paler grey ; tail olive-brown, irregularly barred with black : " iris 

 dark brown ; upper mandible black, tip whitish ; lower mandible dark 

 browuish grey ; feet bluish grey or greyish olive-green " (Naiterer). 

 Total length about 15 inches, wing 8, tail 3, culmen 1-12, tarsus 2-25. 



Two specimens from Peru and Sarayacu have the upper parts 

 with scarcely any black bars, and the whitish-bufl' spots on the 

 wings larger and less numerous ; the one from Sarayacu has the 

 under tail -coverts uniform rufous-chestnut, with no black or olivo 

 markings whatever. 



Toxmg in doivn (probably belonging to this species). Similar to 

 the young in down of T. soUtarim, but differs in being much smaller 

 and also in colouring ; the posterior half of the upper part of the 

 head is much darker, of a brown-chestnut, the feathers of the inter- 

 scapular region darker, and the lower back and rump are of a darker 

 greyish brown ; no snowy white patches on the sides of the nape ; 

 the white of the throat pure and sharply defined from the chestnut 

 colour of the breast. 



Hah. Amazonia, from Para to Eastern Ecuador, Peru, and 

 Bolivia (?). 



