540 TINAMID^. 



Nothocercus nocthagiis, B2)- Compt. Rend. xlii. p. 881, n. 334 (1856) ; 

 id. Tahl. Parall. Gallin. (Extract), p. 12, n. 331 (1856) ; G. R. Gr. 

 Hand-list, iii. p. 5, n. 9892 (1871) ; Heine u. Rchmv. Norn. Mus. 

 Hein. Orn. p. 304 (Rio Grande) (1890). 



Advlt male. Anterior half of the crown slaty black, changing into 

 vinous brown on the posterior half and nape ; a broad rufescent 

 superciliarj' stripe extending down to the sides of the occiput ; 

 postocular region vinous brown ; cheeks and throat rufescent ; 

 mantle dusky brown, the hidden part of the feathers slaty grey ; 

 back brown, freckled with narrow dusky bars ; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts rufous-chestnut, barred with black, the bars narrower 

 than the intervening rufous-chestnut ones ; lower fore neck and 

 crop-region distinctly grey ; breast rufous, sides greyish, abdomen 

 buff : flanks rufescent, barred with grejish brown ; under tail- 

 coverts rufescent, freckled with irregular blackish lines ; upper 

 wing-coverts olive-brown, freckled with brown marks and irregular 

 rufescent bars and marks ; primaries greyish brown ; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and secondaries slaty grey, the latter tinged with 

 olive-brown and banded with bar-like rufescent bars on the outer 

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

 light grey, the central ones white ; tail-feathers slate-grey at the 

 base, on the apical haK rufous freckled with irregular black lines : 

 " iris brown-yeUow ; bill dark grey-brown horn-colour, blackish 

 on the culmen, base of the lower mandible whitish ; legs pale dusky 

 ochreous yeUow " (Wied). Total length about 13 inches, wing 7*4, 

 tail 2"4, culmen 1*1, tarsus 2*2. 



Female. Differs from the male in having the wings regularly and 

 distinctly barred with yellowish buff; the rump and upper tail-coverts 

 are more distinctly barred, the black bars being better defined and 

 broader than the intervening chestnut bars, besides on the upper 

 tail^coverts the light bands are paler, yellowish buff or rufescent ; 

 sides and flanks more distinctly barred with brown-black, the bars 

 not being confined to the flanks, but extending to the sides of the 

 breast. Total length about 13 inches, wing 8, tail 2-6, culmen 1-2, 

 tarsus 2-2. 



Yoimg male. " The whole of the upper parts with pale rusty- 

 yellow dots, and between these with obsolete brown-black undulated 

 marks ; on the upper tail-coverts the yellowish extends on the edges 

 of the feathers ; lower parts pale brownish grey, washed with 

 yellowish brown, marked all over with darker grey-brown zigzag 

 obsolete cross-lines" (Wied). 



Two specimens in the Turin Museum, which have been apparently 

 kept in confinement, have the superciliary stripes and cheeks very 

 pale, nearly whitish, the grey colour of the lower fore neck and 

 breast more or less tinged with rufous, and the bars on the upper 

 parts cover nearly the whole of the back. They are probably 

 females. 



Hah. Eastern Brazil, north to Garanhuns, south to Rio Belmonte. 

 The localities Peru (TscJmdi) and Montevideo (Sclilegel) are open to 

 doubt. 



