558 TINAMID^. 



8. Nothoprocta branickii. 



Nothoprocta branickii, Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 563 (Junin, C. Peru) ; 

 Sclat. ^' Salv. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 680; Tacz. Om. Per. iii. p. 308, 

 Tables, p. 107 (1886). 



Adult. Smaller than N. ornata and about the size of N. perdi- 

 caria. Upper parts brownish grey, vermiculated with black, the 

 feathers of the back with large subapical black spots ; top of head 

 black, spotted with fulvous whitish, the feathers with irregular 

 nifous bars ; sides of head and throat whitish, changing into 

 rufescent on the lower neck, the feathers speckled or tipped with 

 black, the black specks less numerous on the throat ; breast silvery 

 grey, on the sides greyish browia, vermiculated with black ; lower 

 part of breast, abdomen, and flanks rufous buff, undulated with 

 grey bars, especially on the lower breast ; under tail-coverts buff, 

 undulated with dusky lines ; quills brown-black ; primaries with 

 whitish rufescent bars or marks on the outer web ; secondaries with 

 black and rufous bars ; under wing-coverts rufescent, with irregular 

 dusky bars, the last row uniform greyish brown : " bill brown, the 

 base of the lower mandible pale ; feet yellowish ; iris brown " 

 (JelsJd). Total length about 11 inches, wing 7, culmen 0-95, 

 tarsus 1*4. 



I have described a specimen belonging to the Branicki Museum, 

 probably the type, kindly sent to me for inspection by Dr. Stolzmann. 



Hah. Junin, Peru. 



6. NOTHURA. 



Type. 



Tinamus, Spi.v (nee Lath.), Av. Bras. ii. p. 63 (1825). . N. boraquira. 



Nothura, Wa(jl. Syst. Av. [p. i'97] (1827) N. boraquira. 



Nothurus, part., Sw. Class. B. ii. p. 34o (1837). 

 Notbera, G. R. Gr. List Gen. Birds, p. 63 (1840) 

 ( = Nothura). 



Ramje. Eastern South America from S. Brazil and Bolivia to 

 Patagonia. 



Key to the Species. 



n. Pale nifous or fulvous below ; wing more than 



4"5 inches. 



a. Vermiculations and spottings of upper parts 



much coarser. 



a" . Lower parts rufescent, dark spots of the 



breast not deep black, but rather browu 



and not regularly round maculosa, p. 559. 



b". Lower parts not distinctly rufescent, but 

 pale fulvous or yellowish. 

 «'". Spots on the breast deep black and 



almost regularly round ni(jroffuttata, p. 560. 



b'" . Spots on the breast not deep black, 

 neither regularly round. 

 «■'. Mesial part of the feathers of the 



back chestnut and black boliviana, p. 561. 



