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coverts are dusky brown like the quill-lining, with a few rufescent 

 bars towards the ends, so that they resemble the lining of the 

 quills ; they may be called grey with rufous bars, but I should 

 consider the colour greyish brown ; certainly they are not rufous 

 with grey bars." 



In the Bogota birds the primaries have the outer webs barred 

 with rufous and brown, while the inner webs are rufous, ivith narrow 

 undulated greyish-hrown hars ; the secondaries outwardly are almost 

 regularly barred with broader brown bars and narrower rufous ones, 

 between them there are obsolete narrow blackish bars ; the under 

 wing-coverts are rufous with crescentic greyish-brown bars ; the 

 greater ones or last row have pale rufous and grey bars. 



Some specimens are thickly dotted with reddish white on the 

 upper parts and wings. 



In the Bogota specimens there is also a good deal of variation in 

 the rufous colour of the underparts, in some specimens deep chest- 

 nut, in others clear rufous. 



The Bogota birds differ from the type in having the inner web of 

 the primaries distinctly rufous, freckled with greyish bars, and the 

 greater under wing-coverts dusky grey, regularly barred with 

 rufous from the base and not only at the tip. Possibly when a 

 larger series is available it will be found convenient to separate 

 specifically the Bogota birds from those from Venezuela. Also the 

 birds from Ecuador, which by Taczanowski and Berlepsch are said 

 to be somewhat different, require comparison. 



Young (from the interior of New Granada). Similar to the adult 

 (specim. d,) in colouring, but the black feathers of the head sprinkled 

 with white dots ; throat paler reddish white. 



Hah. Venezuela, and, if the same, also Bogota and Ecuador. 



a. Ad. St. Valley of Aragua, Venezuela. Dyson Coll. (Type 



of species.) 



b, c. Ad. etjuv. Interior of New Granada Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 sk. (Trilbner). 



d. Ad. sk. New Granada ( Verreaux Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Coll.) 



4. Nothocercus frantzii. 



Tinamus frantzii, Laivr. An7i. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 140 (Cervantes, 

 Costa Rica) (18G8) ; Frantz. J. f. O. 1869, p. 374 ; G. R. Gr. 

 Hand-list, iii. p. 4, n. 9868 (1871); Salvin, Ibis, 1874, p. 312 

 (= T. bonapartei). 



Nothocercus bonapartii, part., Sclat. ^ Salv. Nom. Av. Neotrop. 

 p. 152 (Costa liica) (1873) ; Boucard {nee G. R. Gr.), P. Z. S. 

 1878, p. 41 (Rio Navarro, Costa Rica) ; Zeled. Cat. Av. Costa 

 Rica, p. 29 (1882) ; id. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1885, p. 112 (Costa 

 Rica) ; id. An. Mies. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 128, n. 610. 



Tinamus nigricapillus, part., Schley, (nee G. R. Gr.) Mus. P.-B., 

 Tinami, pp. 17, 18, specim. 3 (Costa Rica) (1880). 



Similar to N. bonapartei, but the colouring of the upper parts and 

 wings less rufous chestnut and more olive-brown ; quills less rufous 



