546 TINAMID^. 



the secondaries tinged with olive on the edge of the outer web ; 

 marginal under wing-coverts greyish brown, the last row pale 

 grey, the central ones whitish ; tail-feathers olive-brown, freckled 

 with brown lines : bill horn-brown above, pale below ; feet pale 

 horn-colour in dry skin. Total length about 12 inches, wing 7, 

 tail 2-2, culmen 1-1-1, tarsus 1-8-1-9. 



Female. Similar to that of C. cinnamome^ts, but not so brightly 

 rufous vinous on the occiput and nape, and not barred with black 

 on the lower fore neck and sides of the breast : besides it differs in 

 having the tail-feathers barred only on the inner web. 



Young male. Less black on the forehead and less rufeseent on the 

 ccciput ; the breast more greyish olive ; upper parts more olive and 

 more strongly barred with black ; the upper wing-coverts with 

 broad pale buff edges, especially the greater ones. 



Hah. North-eastern Mexico. 



a-d. (S $ ad. sk. Tampico, E. Mexico, Feb., Salvin-Godman CoU. 'i 

 June ( W. B. Richardson). 



e. Ad.sk. Tamaulipas, Mexico {TV. B. Salvin-Godman Coll. | 



B.). I 



/, ff. (5 ad. et Sien-a Madre, above Ciudad Salvin-Godman Coll. | 



juv. sk. Victoria, Tamaulipas ( W. y 



B. BX 



h, i. Ad. sk. Hacienda de los Atlixcos, Salvin-Godman CoU. 



Mexico, March {F. D. God- 

 man). 



k. S ad. sk. Monte Verde, Mexico, June. Salvin-Godman CoU. 



(Types of species.) 



28. Cryptums occidentalis, sp. n. 



? Nothocercus salla^i, Laior. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. II. ii. p. 307 (1874) 

 (Mazatlan) {nee Bonap.). 



Similar to C. memcanus, but the brown-olive upper parts more 

 finely and thickly vermiculated with black ; the occiput and sides 

 of the head posteriorly olive-brown, but not rufeseent ; the lower 

 fore neck and entire breast greyish, with no rufous tinge ; only the 

 abdomen pale rufeseent ; the feathers of the latter not distinctly 

 tipped with white ; if constant, the upper wing-coverts with some 

 buff dots, and the secondaries more olive, freckled with black on 

 the outer web and with traces of buff irregular barrings : bill and 

 feet as in 0. mexicanus. Total length about 11 inches, wing 7, 

 culmen 1, tarsus 1*S. 



Female. Unknowia, but probably similar to that of C. mexicamis. 

 Hah. Territory of Topic, North-western Mexico. 



a. S ad. sk. San Bias, Tepic, W. Mexico, May Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 (JT. B. Bichardson). (Type of species.) 



29. Cryptums transfasciatus. 



Crypturus transfasciatus, Sclat. S) Salv. P.Z. S. 1878, p. 141, pi. xiii. 

 (Santa Eosa, Ecuador) ; Berl. ^- Tacz. P. Z. S. 1884, pp. 282, 312 

 (Guayaquil) ; Tacz. ^ Berl. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 121. 



