538 TINAMID^. 



20. Crypturus brevirostris. 



Tinamus brevirostris, Natt. Cat. MS. ; Pelz. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 

 1863, p. 1128 (BrazU) ; Natt. ibid. p. 1130 (Barra do Eio Negro) 

 (1863) ; G. R. Gr. List Gallince Brit. Mus. p. 101, n. 35 (1867) ; 

 Pelz. Orn. Bras. {Dp. 294, 453, Iv (Barra do Rio Negro) (1871) ; 

 Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 635 (1877) ; Pelz. u. Lor. Ann. naturh. 

 Hofmus. iii. p. 5 (types) (1888). 



Nothocercus brevirostris, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, iii. p. 5, n. 9890- 

 (1871). 



Crypturus variegatus, part., Schleg.Mus. P.-5., Tinami, p. 32 (1880), 



" Tinamiis pileo, capitis lateribus, et nuchas stria longitudinali 

 nigro rufoque variegatis (plumis nigrescentibus late rut'o limbatis), 

 colli lateribus et reliqua nucha ferrugineo-rufis, plumis dorsi et 

 uropygii, tectricibus cauda) superioribus et tectricibus alarum 

 superioribus nigris, singula fasciis transversalibus 2-3 oHvascente- 

 ochraceis Ig— 3'" latis (tectricibus alarum majoribus in uno individuo 

 hinc inde macula vel fascia alba irregular!), remigibus cinereo- 

 brunneis, secundariis margine externo interdum et versus apicem 

 interni maculis parvis ochraceis irregularibus, tectricibus alarum 

 inferioribus extimis cinereo-brunneis, reliquis albidis, gula alba, 

 collo inferiore, pectore ct abdomine ferrugineo-rufis, abdomine medio 

 albescente, lateribus corporis canescente-ochraceis fasciis transver- 

 salibus nigris irregvJaribus, plumis crissi et tectricibus caudae 

 inferioribus ochraceis, fasciis transversis 1-2 nigris, rectricibus 

 cinereo-brunneis. Longit. tot. 10", rostri a rictu 13'", a fronte 

 i)'", a uaribus 4"', alas 5l-5|", tarsi 18-19'", digiti medii cum 

 iingue 1"." (Peheln). 



Similar to C. vanegaius, but much smaller, the bill much shorter, 

 and the upper part of the head rusty red. The light bars on the 

 upper parts are much broader and less numerous, standing further 

 apart, and besides they are not of an ochreous colour as in 0. varie- 

 gatus, but pale brown. 



The young bird has the whole of the back pale brown with few 

 indistinct black bars. The sides of the breast and of the abdomen 

 less spotted or barred; the brown bars are 1|"' broad. Bill from 

 the gape 14'", from forehead 9'", wings 5" 4'", tarsus 19'" 

 (Natterer). 



I am not acquainted with this species ; Schlegel thinks it is the 

 young of C. variegatus; but the young of that bird is very peculiar 

 in having white dots on the upper parts, not mentioned in Pelzeln 

 and Natterer's descriptions. 



Bah. Barra do Eio Negro, C. Brazil. 



21. Crypturus bartletti. (Plate XI.) 



Crypturus bartletti, Sclat. ^ Salv. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 311 (E. Peru) ; 

 lid. Norn. Av. Neotrop. p. 152, n. 14 (1873) ; Bartl. P. Z. S. 1882, 

 p. 375 (Santa Cruz on the Huallaga River, E. Peru) ; Tacz. Orn. 

 Per. iii. p. 301, Tables, p. 107 (1886). 



Tinamus bartletti, Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 635 (1877). 



