510 TINAMIDJi:. 



1885, p. 112 (Ecuador) ; Heine u. Rchnw. Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn. 

 p. 304 (Bogota) (1890). 

 Nothocercus bourcieri, Bp. Compt. Rend. xlii. p. 881, n. 330, p. 954 

 (= Julius) (1856). 



Adult. Upper part of the head anteriorly rufous chestnut, pos- 

 teriorly brown, finely barred with rufous ; sides of the head rufous 

 brown ; throat pure white : upper parts olive-brown, crossed with 

 black bars ; on the wiugs and rump some whitish-buff marks near 

 the tip of the feathers ; lower part of the fore neck and upper 

 breast olive-brown, finely vermiculated with black ; sides and flanks 

 olive-brown, barred with black ; middle of the breast bright rufous ; 

 middle of the abdomen also rufous, but paler ; under tail-coverts 

 olive-brown, with irregular crescentic black bars, marked with 

 rufous near the edges ; primaries greyish brown : outer web of 

 secondaries olive-brown near the edge, varied with black and bufE 

 bar-like spots ; under wing-coverts greyish brown, the last row lighter 

 grey ; tail on the apical portion olive, with irregular crescentic 

 black bands : upper mandible dark, lower mandible pale ; feet olive- 

 brown (in dry skins). Total length about 14 inches, wing 8, 

 culmen i'20, tarsus 2-50. 



A fine specimen from New Granada in the Museum of Genoa has 

 nearly the whole head, above and on the sides, bright chestnut. 



Young in down. General colour chestnut : forehead and sides of 

 the head rufous ; occiput blackish ; throat white (ifonji, Ecuador). 



A younrj bird from Sarayacu, Ecuador, apparently belonging to 

 this species : forehead and upper sides of the head buff ; occiput 

 brown ; throat white ; mantle, sides, and breast chestnut ; middle 

 of the back greyish brown ; flanks bright glossy chestnut ; middle 

 of the abdomen greyish ; tail and upper tail-coverts chestnut. 



Female. Specimens from Ecuador, according to Taczanowski and 

 Count Berlepsch (P. Z. S. 1885, p. 172), difi'er from the Bogota male 

 in the following particulars : — " Upper parts darker, more olive and 

 less rufescent, and with broader barrings ; the rufous colour of the 

 crown darker and more distinctly undulated with black ; the cheeks 

 much less rufescent ; the lower part of the fore neck and the sides 

 of the body darker and more strongly barred with black ; iris very 

 dark greyish brown." 



Specimen h, mentioned below, is the only adult bird from Ecuador 

 I have seen ; no doubt this has the barrings on the upper parts 

 broader than in the Columbian specimens ; besides it has the olive 

 bars paler and almost without any dusky frecklings. It is quite 

 probable that with a large series of specimens we shall be able to 

 separate specifically the Ecuadorian bird. 



Hab. New Granada and Ecuador. 



a. c? ad.sk. tsew Gmnada (Verreaux Coll.). Sal vin-Godman Coll. 



6-e Juv. etpuU. New Granada. Purchased. 



sk. 



/. Ad. sk. Bogota. Purchased. 



ff. Pull. sk. Bogota, New Granada {Bon- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



card). 



