3. CUYITITRUS. 535 



upper ■wing-coverts like the back, only more olivaceous, with a few 

 irregular narrow black bars, and with ochreous dots and narrow 

 bars near the edge ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and primaries 

 greyish brown : secondaries freckled with ochreous on the outer 

 edge ; marginal under wing-coverts greyish brown, the last row 

 pale grey, the central ones greyish white ; lores, sides of the head 

 and of the neck rusty rufous ; throat in some specimens white, in 

 others, perhaps not fully adult, rufescent ; lower fore neck and 

 upper breast dull ashy ; abdomen paler along the middle, whitish 

 on the lower part ; sides rufous brown, more or less olive ; flanks 

 barred with brown, each feather with apical pale buff bars ; under 

 tail-coverts rufous, with black irregular bars and uniform tips ; tail 

 rufous brown, with black marks near the edges and ochreous bars near 

 the tip : " iris yellow-brown or pale brown ; upper mandible brown- 

 black, lower grej'ish flesh-colour with the tip dusky ; feet red " 

 (Natterer). Total length about 13 inches, wing G'o, tail 1*8, 

 culmen 0-9-1, tarsus l-8-l'9. 



Of the two males collected by Natterer, mentioned below, the one 

 from Forte do Ilio Branco is more olive above, has the throat pure 

 white, the lower fore neck and upper breast more greyish ; the other, 

 from Barra do Bio Negro, is more rufous brown above, has the throat 

 rufous mixed with a few white feathers, the lower fore neck more 

 brown, and the upper breast rufous with no distinct greyish tinge. 



Female. " Upper wing-coverts, lower back, and upper tail-coverts 

 with ochreous bars " (Pelzeln) ; iris dark brown ; feet dark rosy '^ 

 {Natterer). 



Hah. Central Brazil, in the Amazons region. 



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



( Tinamus striffulosus, G. II. Gr. List Gallin. 

 p. 100, specim. b.) 



b. Ad. St. Brazil ? Zool. Soc. Coll. 



(Type of T. longirostris, G. R. Gr.) 



c. S ad. sk. Barra do Rio Negro, Brazil, Sahan-Godman Coll. 



Nov. (Natterer). 



d. (S ad. sk. Forte do Rio Branco, Brazil, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Dec. (Natterer). 



(Typical specim. of C. erythropus, Pelz.) 



18. Crypturus variegatus. 



Tinamou vari6 de Cayenne, D'Aiibetit. PI. Enl. 828. 



Tinamou vavitS, Buff. Hid. Nut. Gig. iv. p. 511 (1778). 



Variegated Tinamou, Lath. Syn. ii. 2, p. 720, n. 3, t. 6.5 (1783). 



Tetrao variegatus, Gtn. S. N. i. 2, p. 7«8, n. 05 (1788). 



Tinamus variegatus, Lath. Itul. Orn. ii. p. 634, n. 3 (1790) ; Temm. 



Pig. et Gallin. iii. pp. 576, 750 (1815) ; Stej)h. Gen. Zool. xi. 2, 



p. 409, pi. 26 (1819) ; Wied, Meise 7iach Bras. i. p. 262 (1820), ii, 



p. 121 (1821) ; Temm. PL Col., genre Tinamou, sp. 9 (1820) ; I^ss. 



Man. ii. p. 206 (1828) ; id. Tr.d'Orn.^.rA'l (1831) : Wied\Beitr. 



iv. p. 510 (,1832) ; Les^. Compl.de Buff. 2nA. ed. Ow.p. 2.38 (1838); 



Temm. PL Col. i. Tabl. Meth. p. 87 (1839) ; HartL Syst. Verz. 



Ges. Mus. p. 105 (1844) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. iii. p. 524, n. 8 (1844) ; 



