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Adult. Upper part of the head black, sides of the head and nape 

 brown ; mantle olive-brown ; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 reg;ularly barred with olive-brown and black, on the wings the 

 lighter bars are paler and more ochreous ; throat white ; lower 

 fore neck and breast ochreous olive, lower breast rufescent, changing 

 into fulvous buff on the abdomen ; sides of the breast more oHve 

 and barred with black ; lower flanks barred with black, and with 

 buff bars at the tip of the feathers ; under tail-coverts rufous 

 cinnamon ; primaries, primary-coverts, and bastard-wing uniform 

 blackish, secondaries with some rufous marks on the outer webs ; 

 marginal under wing-coverts dark brown, the greater ones light 

 grey, the central ones paler grey, nearly whitish ; tail olive-brown : 

 bill plumbeous, under mandible pale ; feet dusky. Total length 

 about 9 inches, wing 6 (5-5 in the original description !), tail 1*5, 

 culmen 0-9, tarsus 1-62. 



Young birds are less barred on the upper parts and have white 

 tips to the median and greater upper wing-coverts. 



Hab. Eastern Peru, on the Upper Amazons. 



a. Ad. sk. Santa Cruz, E. Peru {£. Bartktt). Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



(Type of species.) 



b. 2 ad. sk. Santa Cruz, Sept. E. Bartlett [0.1. 



c. 2 ad. sk. Chamicuro.s, Jan. E. Bartlett [C.]. 



d. 2 juv. sk. Yquitos, March (H. Whitelij). Salvin-CTodman Coll. 



22. Crypturus noctivag^s. 



Tiuamus noctivagus, ]Vied, lieisc nach Bras. i. pp. 160, 173 (1820), 

 ii. pp. Ill, Ul, 14o, 158 (1821) ; Temm. PI. Vol., (/cure Tinamou, 

 sp. 7 (1826) ; Less. Ma7i. ii. p. 205 (1828) ; id. Tr. (TOrn. p. 512 

 (1831) ; IVied, Beitr. iv. p. 504, tab. i. f. 1 (trachea and larynx) 

 (1832) ; Less. Compl. dv Buf. 2nd ed. Ois. p. 2.38 (1838) ; G. R. Or. 

 Gen. B. ill. p. 524, n. 7 (1844) ; Kartl. Erst. Nachti: Verz. Ges. Mm. 

 p. 17, n. 190 (1846); Bc/inb. Si/>i.Ai:, Gallinacea;, t. 284. ff. 1561- 

 62 (1848) (ex SpLv) ; id. J. f. O. 1853, E.vtrah. p. 41; G. R. Gr. 

 List Galli>i(e Brit. Mus. p. 101, u. 25 (1807) ; Eu/er, J. f. O. 1867, 

 pp. 189, 190, 198 ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 293 (note), p. 4o3 (1871) ; 

 Gieb. T/ies. Orn. Hi. p. 637 (1877). 



Pezus zabele, Sjji.r, Av. Bras. ii. p. 62, t. 77 (Catingha) (1825). 



Crypturus noctivagus, Wagl. Si/st. Av.,gen. Crypturus, sp.6 (1827) : 

 T.'ich. Arch. f. Naturg. 1844, i. p. 307, n. 277 (Peru) ; Thienem. 

 Fortpjlanz. p. 27, t. v. f. 4 {q«^) (1845); Tscli. Faun. Per.. 

 Aves, pp. 4ii, 283 (1846) ; Licht. Nom. Av. p. 87 (1854) : 

 Burm. Tit. Bras. iii. p. 320 (1856) ; Eider, J. f. O. 1867, p. 418 

 (egg) ; Ri'in/i. Vid. Mvdd. naturh. Furen. Kjiibenh. 1870, p. 47 

 (Lagoa dos Pitos, near Lagoa Santa) ; Sclat. ^y Salr. Norn. 

 Av. Neotrop. p. 152, n. 12 (Brazil) (1873); Cab. J.f. O. 1874, 

 p. 230; iSchleg. Mus. P.-H., Tinami, p. 33 (Montevideo, Mus. 

 Berol.x Baliia, Mus. Vienna) (1880); Forbes, Ibis, 1881, p. 360 

 ((Jaranhuns, X.E. Brazil); ScJut. LAst Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 545 

 (Zool. (i;ird.) (1883) ; Berl. u.Jher. Zeifsc/ir. ges. Orn. 1885, p. 183 

 (Taquarado -Muudo novo) ; 6'«/c. //yiV, lb86,]). 181 (part., critical); 

 Tacz. Orn. Per. iii. p. 302, Tubles, p. 107 (1886); Sc/at. Ibis, 

 1890, p. 82 (quintocubital): Hurtert, Kat. Vuyelsamml. p. 206, 

 n. 3095 (1891). 



