520 TINAMIDiE. 



orange ; feet pale brown, or of a dead-leaf colour " (Azara) ; " bill 

 coral-red " ( Vieillot) ; " iris broWn, ochreous, I'ed, or red-brown " 

 (Jhei-ing) ; " feet greenish flesh-brown colour like the upper man- 

 dible " {Burmeister), Total length about 10"5 inches, wing 6"5, 

 culmen 0-95, tarsus 1"9. 



Female. Similar to the male, only paler on the abdomen. 



The larger specimens have the upper part of the head and nape 

 much darker, nearly black. 



A young bird, apparently belonging to this species (Forest of 

 Itaborari, on the Rio Macocou, Mus. Turin), is duller, has the throat 

 paler greyish, the upper parts finely vermiculated and with a few 

 blackish and whitish buff dots, and the lower fore neck and the 

 breast distinctly barred with brown. 



Taczauowski mentions two Peruvian races, both differing from 

 the Brazilian birds in having a darker grey throat and the bill 

 much smaller, and he gives the following diagnoses of them : — 



First race (Central Peru). Upper parts darker and less rufescent, 

 middle of the abdomen broadly fulvous and paler, distinctly different 

 from the colour of the flanks, where the dark bars are less distinct ; 

 the smoky-grey colour of the sides of the head distinctly washed 

 with reddish ; iris orange. 



Second race (Northern Peru). Upper parts paler and more rufes- 

 cent, abdomen brighter ; iris brown. 



Hab. Paraguay, Argentine, Brazil, and, if the same species, Co- 

 lombia and also Peru. The Colombian birds mentioned by Schlegel 

 probably belong to C. castaneus. 



<i. Ad. St. Brazil. Zool. Soc. 



b. Ad. sk. Brazil. M. Claussen [P.]. 

 c,d. (S 2 ^d. St. Brazil (Verreaux Coll.). Purchased. 



c. Ad. sk. Brazil? (Bouca7-d Coll.). Salvin-Godman Coll, 

 /, ff, h- d $ ad. sk. Rio de Janeiro. Alex. Fry, Esq. [P.]. 



i. Ad. sk. Rio Parana, Brazil {Rogers). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



k. Ad. sk. Tilotilo, Prov. Yungas, Bolivia Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( C. Buchletj). 



Pale greyish variety (?). 

 I. c? ad. St. Bolivia. T. Bridges, Esq. [P.]. 



3. Crypturus cerviniventris. 



Crypturus cerviniventris, Sclat. 4" Sah. P. Z. S. 1873, p. .'312 (Vene- 

 zuela) ; iifl. Noinencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 152, n. 6 (1873) ; Spence, 

 Land of Bolivar, i. iig. p. 267 (1878). 



Tinamus cerviniventris, Gieh. T/ies. Orn. iii. p. 635 (1877). 



Adult (type). Very similar to C. ohsoletus, but much paler and 

 smaller ; head, nape, and throat dull grey, the upper part of the 

 head darker, dusky grey ; hind lower neck and upper parts reddish 

 olive, with traces of obsolete vermiculations ; lower fore neck and 

 lower parts pale rufous, paler still on the abdomen ; flanks and 

 abdomen with dull brown bars, the tips of the feathers pale 



