5. NornoPRocTA. 555 



a. 5 ad. st. Coquimbo, Chili. Sir W. Burnett & Capt. ") 



Fitzroy [P.]. | 



6. J ad. sk. Coquimbo. June (Z)/-. Voy. of II.M.S. ' Alert.' )■• 



Ooppinger). \ 



c. (S ad.sk. Coquimbo, June (Z)r. Salvin-Godman Coll. J 



Coppi-iKjer). (Types of species.) 



5. Nothoprocta pentlandi. (Plate XVI. *) 



PNothura punctulata, Bp. (nee Des Murs) Tabl. ParalL Gallin. 



{Extract), p. 12, n. 389, p. i^O (part., Bolivia) (1856) ; ? Schleg. 



Mhs. P.-B., Tinami, p. 41 (Chili) (1880). 

 PNothura curvirostris, Bp. in Mus. Lu(jd.; id. Tabl. ParalL Gallin. 



{Extract), p. 12 (185(3) (iiomen nudum). 

 P Rhyuchotus punctulatus, G. R. Gr. {nee Des Murs) List Gallince 



Brit. Mus. p. 103 (Bolivian Andes) (1867) ; id. Hand-list, iii. p. 5 



n. 9900 (1871). 

 Rhynchotus pentlandii, G. P. Gr. List Gallinte Brit. Mus. p. 103 



(Bolivia) (1867) ; id. Hand-list, iii. p. 5, n. 9901 (1871). 

 Nothoprocta peutlaudi, Sclat. S,- Salv. No7n. Av. Neotrop. p. 153, 



n. 3 (1873); iid. P.Z.S. 1874, p. 680; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1879, 



p. 461 ; Sclat. ^- Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 642 (Andes of Bolivia, 



Sicasica, and Chiquitos) ; Sclat. ^- Huds. Argent. Orn. ii. p. 210 



(1889) ; Frenz. J.f. O. 1891, p. 124 (Argentine) ; Berl. J.f. 0. 1892, 



p. 456 (critical). 

 Tinamus pentlandi, Gieh. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 637 (1877). 

 Nothoprocta doeringi. Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 138 (Cordova) ; Selat. 



P. Z. S. 1879, p. 461 ; Sclat. S,- Salv. ibid. p. 642 ; White, P. Z. S. 



1883, p. 432 (Cosquiu, Cordova) ; Berl. J.f. O. 1892, p. 456. 

 Nothura doeringi, F. Schultz in litt., tide Cab. J.f. O. 1«78, p. 198. 

 Nothoprocta moebiusi, Berl. Ber. AUg. Dent.-c/tl. Orn. Ges. 1892, 



p. 13 (juv., Bolivia); id. J.f. O. 1892, p. 455. 



Similar to y. j^erdicaria and K. coquiinlica, but much smaller. 

 Forehead, sides of the head, fore neck, and breast bluish grey, the 

 latter dotted with white : middle of the crown and occiput black, 

 the feathers edged with bi'own and with a white stripe oa the 

 outer edge ; upper ])lumage greyish brown, each feather of the back 

 black, barred witli brown along the middle, greyish on the sides. 

 and with two whitish longitudinal stripes between the grey lateral 

 edge and the dark mesial portion ; throat, middle of the breast, 

 and abdomen dusky whitish butt" ; sides and flanks greyish, dotted 

 or barred with white and freckled with black vermiculations ; under 

 tail-coverts dull greyish, with traces of dusky bars ; quills blackish : 

 primaries spotted with whitish buff on the outer web ; secondaries 

 barred with buff ; upper wing-coverts greyish brown, variegated 

 with black marks and white spots ; under wing-coverts greyish 

 brown : bill in dry skins brown, with the base of lower mandible 

 paler ; feet pale colour, probably yellow in the living bird. Total 

 length 9-5 inches, wing 6, culmen 1-1, tarsus 1-5. 



* The Plate represents a bird prob.ably not adult ; the adult bird has the 

 forehead, sides ot the head, fore neck, aud upper breast bluish lead-colour, the 

 latter dotted with white. 



