532 TINAMID^. 



1 have to remark on Plate XIII. that the artist has drawn the 

 head too thick and the bill much too arched. The feet in dry skins 

 are brown. 



Hah. E. Peru. 



a. S fid. sk. Elvira, E. Peru, Jan. {J. Haux- Maidstone Museum 



well). [P.]. (Type of 



species.) 



b, c. S ad. sk. Elvira, Jan. {J. Sauxicell). Salvin-Godmau Coll. 

 d. J ad. sk. Samiria, Nov. {J. Sauxwell). Salviu-Godman CoU. 

 Cj /• 6 ad. et Santa Cruz, on the Huallaga River, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2 imm. sk. E. Peru, July, Aug. (Bartlett). 



14. Crypturus atricapillus. 



Crypturus atrocapillus, Tsch. Arch.f. Naturf/. 1844, i. p. 307, n. 281 



(Peru) ; id. Faun. Per., Aves, pp. 47, 284, n. 6 (1844) ; Licht. Norn. 



At: p. 87 (Brazil! and Peru) (1854); Berl. J.f. 0. 1892, p. 455 



(critical). 

 Tinamus atro-capillus, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. iii. p. 524, n. 15 (1844) ; 



id. List Gallince Brit. Mus. p. 101, u. 27 (1867) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. 



iii. p. 635 (1877) ; Tacz. Orn. Per. iii. p, 294, Tables, p. 106 



(1886). 

 Xothocercus atricapillus, Bp. Compt. Bend. xlii. p. 881, n. 336 (1856) ; 



id. Tahl. Parall. Gallin. {Extract), p. 12, n. 333 (1856) ; G. R. Gr. 



Hand-list, iii. p. 5, n. 9891 (1871). 

 Crvptums erythropus, part., Schleg. Mus. P.-B., Tinami, p. 34 



(1880). 



Adult (type) *. Upper part of the head black ; sides of the fore- 

 head brown ; superciliary band, posteriorly to the eyes, throat, and 

 middle of the breast bright rufous : sides of the head brown ; lores 

 tinged with rufous ; nape blackish ; lower part of the neck greyish 

 olive, waved with dusky lines ; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 olive-brovsTi, undulated with blackish-brown irregular bars ; wings 

 similar, but more olive ; abdomen pale rufous ; sides and flanks 

 greyish olive-brown, waved with dusky lines ; lower flanks with 

 broadish brown-black bars and narrower blackish-buff ones ; under 

 tail-coverts rufous buff, the mesial part towards the base black, the 

 lighter portion sprinkled or barred with black ; the greater upper 

 wing-coverts with small buff spots on the outer web ; primaries 

 uniform greyish brown ; secondaries variegated with olive-brown 

 on the outer web, and with some rufescent spots arranged in a bar- 

 like manner ; under wing-coverts grey, the median ones whitish : 

 " bill black, lower mandible yellow ; feet yellow ; iris brown '' 

 (Tschudi). Total length about 12 inches, wing 6-75, culmen I'l,- 

 tarsus 2'25. 



Hab. Peru. 



* Thanks to Prof. Paul Godet, I have been able to examine and describe the 

 type of this species, which is not in the CoOection of the British Museum. 



