526 TINAMlDiE. 



olive wash ; throat whitish grey ; upper parts uniform chestnut- 

 brown ; abdomen whitish ; sides greyish ; lower flanks black, each 

 feather edged with whitish buff, and some have a whitish crescentic 

 or V-shaped mark ; under tail-coverts bufl', with irregular horse- 

 shoe black bars ; quills greyish brown ; under wing-coverts grey ; 

 tail rufous brown : " iris chocolate ; beak blood-red ; legs and feet 

 pale purple" (Durnford) ; or "beak vermilion-red ; feet dirty pink- 

 red; irides red-brown" (Forbes). Total length about 9 inches, 

 wing 4-9-5-5, tail 1-5, culmen 0-90-0-95, tarsus 1-4. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but somewhat larger. 



Of the four specimens collected by Mr. Fry (h- 1) , one pair have 

 smaller dimensions and are marked male and female, like the larger 

 pair ! 



Young birds have the wings with transverse white and black 

 marks (ScJilegel). 



Young in down. " Whole front of head, including lores and sides 

 of the face in front of the eyes, brownish buiS ; the extreme tips of 

 the downy fibres blackish ; a narrow superciliary stripe widening 

 into a broad band behind the eyes, and a narrow stripe dividing the 

 crown and extending down the back of the neck, yellowish brown 

 like the forehead ; sides of the crown and nape varied dark rusty 

 brown and blackish ; ear-coverts and a narrow maxillary stripe 

 blackish ; general colour above rufescent dusky, the fibres of the 

 downy feathers subapically ringed with pale buff ; below, chin and 

 throat greyish white, passing on the lower throat into a pale huffy 

 tint ; rest of the lower surface mixed buff and dusky ; the downy 

 feathers dusky and tipped with yellowish, passing into a rufescent 

 buff posteriorly " (Allen). 



Hah. Northern (Forbes) and Southern Brazil, Paraguay, and 

 Bolivia ; according to Tschudi also Peru * ; in the Leyden Museum 

 there is a specimen marked Cayenne ! 



a. Ad. sk. Paraguay. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Salta, June. H. Durnford, Esq. [P.]. 



c. Ad. St. Bolivia. T. Bridges, Esq. [C.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Brazil. Old Coll. 



e. Ad. St. Brazil. E. Wilson, Esq. [P.]. 



f. Ad. sk. Brazil. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 '/. $ (?) ad. sk. Chapada,MattoGrosso, Brazil, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sept. {H. H. S7nith). 

 h-l. cJ 2 ad. sk. Eio de Janeiro. Alex. Fry, Esq. [P.], 



8. Crypturus parvirostris. 



Crypturus parvirostris, Wagl. Syst. Av.,gen. Crypturus, sp. 13 (1827) ; 

 Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 51.3 (1831); id. Compl. de Buf. 2nd ed. Ois. 

 p. 239 (1834) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. iii. p. 524, n.'l4 (1844) ; Bp. 

 Compt. Rend. xlii. p. 881, n.327 (1856) ; id. Tabl. Parcdl. Gallin. 

 (Extract), p. 12, n. 325 (1856) ; Burm. Th. Bras. iii. p. 316 



* Two specimens from Eastern Peru (Cbanchamayo, Kalinowski), marked 

 male and female, have been sent to me for inspection by Mr. Stolzmann ; they 

 are nearly alike even in size (.'), and agree in every respect with a specimen from 

 Chapada, Matte Grosso, mentioned in the list. 



