552 TINAMID^. 



maries black, with white marks on the outer web and buflf bars on 

 the inner one ; secondaries barred with buff, and edged with whitish 

 buff on the outer web ; under wing-coverts brown, with buff marks, 

 which on the greater ones become more bar-like : bill brown, with 

 the lower mandible yellowish at the base ; feet yellow ; iris dark 

 brown. Total length about 13 inches, wing 7-4, culmen 1-62, 

 tarsus 1-8. (Mus. BranicH.) 



Immature male. Much browner above, the bars and tips of the 

 feathers of the back being brown with no grey ; no lead-grey colour 

 ■on the lower fore neck and breast, where the feathers are brown 

 and have a black spot and white stripes on the sides ; sides and 

 flanks pale brown, each feather with a black spot ; throat, middle 

 of the breast, and abdomen whitish ; upper wing-coverts like the 

 feathers of the back, only paler ; marks and bars on the quiUs more 

 fulvous. Size smaller than the adult: wing 6-8, culmen 1-5. 



Hub. Central and Southern Peru. 



a. cJ imm, sk. Chachupata, 11,000 feet, S. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Peru, Sept. (If. H'Me/y). (Type oi NotJw- 



procta godmani, Tacz.) 



2. Nothoprocta cinerascens. 



Nothura cinerascens, Buvm.J. f. O. 1860, p. 259 (Tucuman) ; id. La 

 Plata-Reise, ii. p. 498 (Cordova, Tucuman) (1861) ; Schleg. Mus. 

 P.-B., Tinami, p. 40 (note) (syn. emend.) (1880) ; Salv. Ibis, 1880, 

 p. 364 (Tucuman) ; White, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 43 (Cojdova). 



Tinamus cinerascens, Gieb. Thes. Orn. ill. p. 635 (1877). 



Nothoprocta cinerascens, Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 198 (Argentine) ; 

 Sclat. ^- Huds. Argent. Orn. ii. p. 210 (1889) ; Frenz. J.f. 0. 1891, 

 p. 124 ; Salvad. Boll. Mus. Zool. ed Anat. Comp. Tor. x. no. 208, 

 p.24(Salta) (1895). 



Adult male. Upper parts greyish, irregularly barred with black, 

 €ach feather of the back with two whitish stripes between the grey 

 lateral edges and the mesial darker portion ; upper tail-coverts 

 irregularly barred Avith black, greyish brown, and whitish ; a rather 

 broad greyish superciliary stripe ; cheeks white, thickly spotted 

 •with black, throat white ; neck variegated with blackish and white 

 spots ; breast grey, freckled with irregular dusky lines, and orna- 

 mented with roundish white spots, more or less surrounded with 

 dusky ; abdomen white ; sides, flanks, and under tail-coverts 

 whitish, with broadish irregular brown bars ; quills blackish, with 

 whitish marks on the outer web, secondaries regularly barred with 

 pale buff on the outer web ; under wing-coverts regularly barred 

 with whitish buff, the last or greater row uniform grey : " bill 

 slate, under mandible and legs light slate ; iris orange-red " (Durn- 

 ford), OT "■ SLmheT" (White). Total length 12-6 inches, wing 7-4, 

 culmen 1"1, tarsus 1"6. 



Female. Similar to the male, but browner on the upper parts, 

 besides the markings are coarser and the white spots on the breast 

 more bar-like ; size somewhat larger. 



