4. RHVxcnoTrs. 547 



" Supra ochraceus, dorso toto et alis extus nigro-transfasciatis, 

 cervice postica murino-brunnea ; pileo nigro, ochraceo-brunneo 

 transfasciato ; superciliis, gula, et abdomine medio albis ; cervice 

 ima et pectore griseis ; hypochondriis et tectricibus cauda3 inferiori- 

 biis cervinis, nigro transfasciatis ; rostro corneo, mandibulte basi 

 flavicante, pedibus flavis : long, tota 12, alaj 6'2, caudal 2-1, tarsi 

 2"9 * (an potius 1'9 ?), rostri a rictu 1-5 " {Salvin et Sclater). 



Hah. Western Ecuador. 



The type of this Criipturus was obtained at Santa Rosa, Ecuador, 

 by Prof. Steere. I add the description of a bird which I think 

 belongs to the same species: — 



Upper parts black, barred ■^'ith ochreous ; upper part of the head 

 irregularly barred with rufous chestnut and black ; forehead whitish 

 with black marks ; superciliary band, lores, throat, and lower parts 

 whitish ; posterior part of the cheeks and ear-coverts chestnut ; 

 lower neck and breast tinged with dull greyish ; mantle dull chest- 

 nut barred with black ; light bars of rump and upper tail-coverts 

 rufescent ; sides and flanks pale buft', with crescentic black bars ; 

 under tail-coverts buff, with black bars towards the base ; bastard- 

 wing and primaries uniform greyish brown ; secondaries with buff 

 bar-like marks on the outer web ; under wing-coverts dark grey, 

 the last row light grey, the central ones whitish ; tail regularly 

 barred with black and rufous buff: bill in dry skin horn-brown, 

 lower mandible pale ; feet yellowish. Total length about 10 inches, 

 wing 6, tail 2, eulmen 1-05, tarsus 1"85. 



<i. Ad. sk. Balzar Mountains, W. Ecuador Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 [lUimjicorth). 



4. RHYNCHOTUS. 



Type. 



Rhynchotus, Spix, Aves Bras. ii. p. 60 (1825) R. rufesceus. 



Xothurus, Siv. Class. B. ii. p. .34o (1837) R. riifescens. 



Rhvnchotis, Rchib. Si/n. Ai\, Gallinacece, t. 287. ff. lo79- 



80 (1848) ( = Rhynchotus). 



Range. South America east of the Andes, from Brazil and Bolivia 

 to the Argentine Republic. 



Key to the S^jecies. 



a. Neck and breast uniform rufous, more or less 



bright rufescens, p. 548. 



b. Neck rufous with longitudind black streaks ; 



middle of the breast with deep rufous crescentic 



marks macidicollis, p. 550. 



* The authors in their remarks concerning this species say that in size it 

 approaches C. s^ilhei, so that it is quite evident that the tarsus cannot have the 

 length of 2"9 inches, which is seldom to be found even in tl;e larger members 

 of the genus Tinamiis. 



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