3. CKYI'TURUS. 523 



1879, p. 548 (Canca, Aiitioquia) ; Hchlc<i. Mui. P.-B., Tinami, 



p. 24 (1880) ; Zek'don, Cat. Ao. Cost'a liiva, p. 29 (1882) ; 



Nuttimj, I'r. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 409 (1882) (Costa Rica) ; Sclat. 



List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. .545 (Zool. Garcl.) (1883) ; Tacz. ^- Berl. 



P. Z. S. 1885, p. 113 (Yaguachi, Ecuador) * ; Zeled. Pr. U.S. Nat. 



Mus. 1885, p. 112 (Costa Rica) ; Salv. Ibis, 1880, p. 181 (I3rit. 



Guiana); Zeled. An. Mus. Nac. Hep. Costa Pica, 1887, p. 128; Allen, 



Bull. Amer. Mus. N. II. ii. p. 112 (Bolivia) (1889) ; Tristr. Cat. 



Coll. II. p. 2 (Demerara) (1889); IIei)ip u. Rchmu. Nom. Mus. 



Jleiri. Orn. p. ;!04 (Guiana) (1890) ; Kartert, Kat. Voqelsamml. 



p. 200, n. 3097 (1891) ; Itichm. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 525 



(Nicarag-ua) (1893) ; Chapm. Bull. Amer. Mus. N. H. vi. p. 85 



(Trinidad) (1894). 

 Tinamus modestus, Gieb. Tlies. Orn. iii. p. 637 (1877). 

 Cryptiirus pileatus meserytlirus, Schley. Mus. P.-B., Tiuami, p. 25 



(1880). 

 Crypturus sp. ?, Tacz. ^ Berl. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 577 (Chimbo). 

 Crypturus sp., Tacz. ^- Berl. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 120 (Babalioyo and 



Esmeraldas, Fraser). 

 Crypturus sp. nov., Tacz. Sc Berl. I. c. p. 121. 

 Crypturus parvirostris, Tacz. (nee Wai/l.) Orn. Per. iii. p. 298 



(1886). 



Size small ; not barred ; general colour more or less rufous, 

 rufous brown, olive-brown, or even olive ; lower parts clearer ; the 

 mesial parts from bright rufous cinnamon to pale ochreous fulvous ; 

 sides from chestnut to olive ; throat white, sometimes washed with 

 rufous or with grey, but never decidedly rufous or gi-ey ; upper part 

 and sides of head and nape blackish or brown, or even greyish ; 

 S07netimes a bright rufous stripe along the malar region ; neck 

 bright chestnut or rufous brown, or even duskj- ; feathers of the 

 flanks with lighter tips, which produce the appearance of the flanks 

 being obsoletely barred ; under tail-coverts fulvous buff, nearly 

 uniform, sometimes centred with black or more or less freckled with 

 brown ; upper wing-coverts like the back, quills blackish ; under 

 wing-coverts brownish along the edge of the wing, the last row 

 pale grey, the central ones whitish grey : " upper mandible horn- 

 brown, the lower horn-grey, darker towards the tip ; feet olive-grey ; 

 irides grey" {Stolzmunn) ; " irides very light brown " {McLeannan). 

 Total length about 9 inches, wing 5"4, tail I'To, culmen 0-75, 

 tarsus 1'5. 



A young bird in first plumage from I5artica Crrove has the feathers 

 of the upper parts with subapie;il black spots and pale tips ; the 

 iipper wing-coverts have pale ])uff tips, forming two j)ale alar bars 

 at the tip of the median and greater ones ; the lower parts are 

 rufous, with black bar-like marks especially on the flanks. 



Immature fnrds from lloraima have the upper parts olive-brown, 

 the top and sides of head greyish brown ; ( he upper wing-coverts 

 and upper tail-coverts barred at tlie tip with pale ochreous ; lower 

 ))art8 ochreous ; throat white. 



♦ Thanks to Mr. Stolzmann, I have examined the specimen from Yaguachi ; 

 it is a male and not a female, as stated (I. c.), exactly like other specimena from 

 Bibala, Ciiiriqui. 



