544 TINAMID^. 



25. Crypturus boucardi. 



Tinamus boiicardi, Salle, MS. ; Sclut. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 391 (Oaxaca) 

 Salv. Ibis, 1861, p. 35(3 (Oentr. Am.), 1865, p. 195 ; G. R. Ch: 

 List Gallincc Brit. Mus. p. 100 (Guatemala) (1867) ; Pelz. Orn. 

 Bras. p. 293 (note) (1871) ; Gieb. Th.es. Orn. iii. p. 635 (1877) ; 

 Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 229 (1881) (Uvero) ; Pelz. u. Lor. Ann. 

 naturh. Hofmus. iii. p. 51 (1888). 



Tinamus sallsei [err.), Salv. Ibis, 1861, p. 356. 



Crypturus boucarcli, Sclat. Sf Salv. Exot. Orn. p. 91, pi. xlvi. (1868) ; 

 Salv. Ibis, 1870, p. 115; Sclat. i^- Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 838 

 (San Pedro, Honduras) ; iid. Nom. Av. Neotrop. p. 152, n. 10 

 (1873) ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 41 ; Schley. Mus. P.-B., 

 Tinami, p. 26 (1880) ; Zeled. Cat. Av. Costa Pica, p. 29 (1882) ; 

 id. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1885, p. 112 (Costa Eica) ; id. An. Mus. 

 Nac. Rep. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 128. 



Nothocercus boucardi, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, iii. p. 4, no. 9884 (1871) 

 Heine u. Rchnw. Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 304 (Guatemala) (1890). 



Crypturus, sp., Richmond, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 526 (Es- 

 condido, Nicaragua) (1893). 



Adult male. Head, neck, mantle, and upper breast slaty greyish 

 black, upper part of the head blacker ; throat dark grey ; back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts chestnut olive-brown, with obsolete 

 blackish at the tips of the feathers ; upper wing-coverts more olive- 

 brown, freckled with irregular black lines and with a few ochreous 

 dots on the edges of the feathers ; lower breast slaty grey, with an 

 ochreous wash, more conspicuous on the sides of the abdomen ; 

 middle of the abdomen slate-brown, the feathers broadly edged with 

 ochreous buff; flanks with black and ochreous bars, the tips of the 

 feathers ochreous ; under tail-coverts rufescent, thickly barred with 

 black ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills slaty black, the 

 outer web of the tertials like the upper wing-coverts, the second- 

 aries tinged with reddish olive-brown near the edge of the outer 

 web ; tail rufous brown, barred with black ; upper mandible horn- 

 black, the lower pale in dry skin ; feet pale yellowish brown. 

 Total length about 11 inches, wing 6-75, culmen 1-05, tarsus 2-05. 



Female. Similar to the male, but paler, and besides it differs in 

 having the lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, secondaries, and 

 upper wing-coverts strongly banded across with light yellowish 

 brown. 



While the very old male from Chimalapa, Mexico, described above 

 has the throat decidedly dark grey, all the other specimens from 

 British Honduras, Guatemala, and Costa Rica have the throat 

 whitish or even pure white. 



Hah. Southern Mexico, and Central America, south to Costa, 

 Rica. 



a. d ad.sk. Teotalcingo, S.Mexico, March Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Boucard). (Type of species.) 



b. S ad. sk. Chimalapa (4000 feet), Te- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



huantepec, Mexico, March 

 ( W. B. Richardson). 



c. d. Ad. sk. British Hondm-as (Blanca- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



neaux). 



