556 TINAMTD^. 



Young (typo of N. moehiusi, Berl.). No bluish-grey tinge on the 

 head, neck, and breast ; upper part of the head black, the feathers 

 tipped with brown, and striped with whitish on the outer edge ; 

 sides of the head and throat whitish, the feathers tipped with 

 black ; tapper parts much browner than in the adult, the feathers 

 having broader brown tips and centres ; lower parts pale brownish, 

 the feathers of the breast, sides, and flanks with black marks and 

 irregular bars, and with whitish stripes on the sides ; the second- 

 aries besides being barred are also edged with rufescent on the outer 

 web ; Tinder wing-coverts blackish, edged with rufescent. Total 

 length 9*5 inches, wing 5'2o, culmen 0*9, tarsus 1-3. 



I have verj' little doubt that the type of N. moehiusi is the young 

 of the present species, especially as it has the same resemblance to 

 the adult as the young of iV. taczanoivsJcii. 



Hah. Bolivia and N^orth-western Argentine. 



a. Ad. st. Andes of Bolivia. J. P. Pentland [P.]. 



(Type of species.) 



b. Ad. St. Bolivian Andes. T. Bridores, Esq. [G.l. 



c. (S ad. sk. Sierra de Cordova {Dr. A. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Diwing). 



0. Nothoprocta curvirostris. 



Rhynchotis perdix, ? Sclat. {nee Mol.) P. Z. S. 1860, p. 97 (Cdacali 

 and Puellaro, Ecuador). 



Nothoprocta curvirostris, Sclat. % Salv. {nee B}).) Nom. Av. Neotroj). 

 pp. 163, 163 (Ecuador) (1873) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 680 ; Sorbi/, 

 P. Z. S. 1875, p. 361 ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 213 (Cutervo, 

 N. Peru), 1882, p. 49 (Chirimoto, N.E. Peru) : Berl. ^- Tacz. 

 P. Z. S. 1884, p. 312 (Cechce, 10,000 feet, W. Ecuador) ; Tacz. Sr 

 Berl. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 123 ; Tacz. Orn. Per. iii. p. 306, Tables, 

 p. 107 (1886) ; Salv. Novit. Zool.'u. p. 22 (near Cajamarca) (1895). 



Tinamus curvdrostris, Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 636 (1877). 



Nothura curvirostris, Schleg. Mus. P.-B., Tinami, p. 41 (note) (1880). 



? Nothoprocta curvirostra peruviana, Tacz. Orn. Per. iii. p. 307 (1886). 



Adult. Feathers of the upper parts along the middle black, with 

 fwo white stripes on the sides, and variegated and barred with 

 greyish brown ; feathers of the upper part of the head black in the 

 centre, edged with rufous brown, a few with a white stripe on the 

 •outer edge ; lores, sides of the head, and throat whitish ; feathers of 

 cheeks partly rufous brown, and with a black stripe along the shaft, 

 also the feathers of the throat, especially those round it, are simi- 

 larly coloured ; breast and abdomen rufescent ; on the breast the 

 feathers have two whitish spots near the tip and a subapical 

 irregular dusky line ; lower down the feathers are edged with 

 whitish ; the upper taU-coverts greyish olive-brown, Avith black and 

 whitish bar-like marks, besides being dusted with black ; upper 

 wing-coverts pale brown, with bar-like whitish-bufF marks, ante- 

 riorly and posteriorly edged with black ; quills brown, outer 

 primaries barred with whitish buff on the outer web ; on the inner- 

 most primaries the bars are rufescent, and are more or less present 



