518 TINAMID^, 



Crypturus cinereus, Illig. Prodr. Mamm. et Av. p. 245 (1811) ^ 

 JVaffl. Syst. Av., yen. Crypturus, sp. 5 (1827) ; id. Isi.s, 1829, 

 p. 746 (Surinam) ; TscL Arch. f. Natury. 1844, i. p. 307, n. 279 

 (Peru) ; id. Faun. Per., Aves, p. 46, n. 4, p. 283 (1846) ; Thienem. 

 Fortpflanz. p. 23, t. v. f. 3 (egg) (1845) ; Licht. Nom. Av. p. 87 

 (Brazil) (1864) ; Burm. Th. Bras. iii. p. 317 (1856) ; Bp. Compt. 

 Bend. xlii. p. 881, n. 319 (1856) ; id. Tahl. Parall. Gallin. (Krtract), 

 p. 12, n. 317 (1856) ; G. B. Gr. Hand-list, iii. p. 4, n. 9869 (1871) ; 

 Sclat. ^ Salv. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 310 (Chamicuros and Santa Cruz) ; 

 lid. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 152 (Guiana et Amazonia) (1873) ; 

 Schley. Mus. P.-B., Tinami, p. 20 (1880) ; Tacz. Orn. Per. iii. 

 p. 300, Tables, p. 107 (1886) ; Heine u. Bchmv. Nom. Mus. Hein. 

 Orn. p. 303 (Surinam) (1890). 



Cryptura cinerea, Tieill. N. D. xxxiv. p. 102 (1819). 



? Tinamus cseruleus, " Lath.," Less. Man. ii. p. 206 (1828). 



? Crypturus megapodius, Bp. Compt. Rend. xlii. p. 954 (Cayenne ?) 

 (1866) ; id. Tabl. Parall. Gallin. {Extract), p. 12, u. 318, p. 16 

 (1856) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, iii. p. 4, u. 9876 (1871). 



Tinamus megapodius, G. B. Gr. List Gallinre Br. Mus. p. 101, n. 28 

 (1867) ; Gieh. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 636 (1877). 



[Crypturus] assimilis, Mus. I'indoh., fide Hcliley. Mus. P.-B., Tinami, 

 p. 20 (pale variety) (1880). 



Adult. Greyish brown, nearly uniform, only the upper part of the 

 head, ear-coverts, and nape tinged with rufous brown ; throat grey- 

 ish ; shafts of the feathers of the sides of the head and throat white ; 

 under tail-coverts with obsolete dusky and rufous bars : " bill brown 

 horn-colour (in dry skin whitish underneath) ; feet yellowish brown ; 

 irides light hazel " ( Whitely). Total length 12-5 inches, wing 7-7'4, 

 tail 2, culmen 1, tarsus 2-2-2. 



Female. Somewhat larger than the male. 



Young. " Upper parts dark smoky brown, lower parts paler, with 

 the feathers slightly edged with fulvous ; abdomen with a few 

 narrow fulvous bars ; throat pale grej' ; the outer web of the 

 secondaries edged with triangular reddish spots ; under tail-coverts 

 with some reddish spots" (Taczanovski). 



Some specimens have the under tail-coverts with broad creseentic 

 subapical black bars. 



I have not seen Brazilian birds collected by Natterer, which, 

 according to von Pelzeln, are lighter and more reddish ; Schlegel 

 adds that this paler race bears the name of assimilis in the Vienna 

 Museum. Probably Eonaparte bestowed the name Crypturus 

 megapodius on the dark variety ; Dr. Oustalet writes to me that 

 the type specimen, mentioned by Bonaparte, is no longer in the 

 Paris Museum. 



Sab. Northern S. America, from Guiana to Rio Madeira and 

 Eastern Peru on the Upper Amazons. 



a. Ad. St. Cayenne. M. Cuoy Coll. 



b. Ad. st. S. America (Cayenne). Old Coll. 



c,d. S 2 ^^* ^^- Takutu River, Brit. Guiana, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



March, April (H. Whitely). 

 e. 2 ^^' ^^- Yquitos, Upper Amazons, Oct. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(H. Whitely). 



