560 TINAMID^. 



Garrod, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 343 (plantar tendons) ; ? Leybold {v. 

 Mart. transL), J. f. O. 1875, p. 443 ; Durnf. Ibis, 1876, p. 165, 

 1877, p. 203 (Buenos Ayres) : Gibson, Ibis', 1880, p. 168 (Buenos 

 Ayres) ; Schleg. Mas. P.-B., Tinami, p. 42 (part., specim. 1, 2, 3, 6) 

 (1880) ; Dalgleish, Pr. R. P/ii/s. Soc. Edinb. vi. p. 249 (1882) ; 

 White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 629 (Missiones) ; Rchmv. J. f. O. 1882, 

 p. 11 (Zool. Gait.) ; Sclat. List VeH. An. 8tli ed. p. 547 (1883) 

 (Zool. Gard.) ; Barrows, Auk, 1884, p. 317 (part. ; Entrerios, 

 Lower Uruguay) ; Helm, J.f. O. 1885, p. 347 (muscles) ; Gibson, 

 Ibis, 1888, p. 282 (Paysandu, Uruguay) ; Berl. J. f. O. 1887, 

 p. 37 (Pilcomayo, lUo Grande do Sul), p. 127 ; Lucas, Pr. U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. 1887, pp. 157-158 (osteology) ; Withington, Ibis, 

 1888, p. 473 (Lomas de Zaniora) ; Sclat. ^- Huds. Argent. Orn. ii. 

 p. 211 (1889) ; Bedd. Ibis, 1890, pp. 62, 63 (with cut of cffica) ; Sclat. 

 t. c. p. 82 (quiutocubital), p. 425 ; Heine u. Rchnw. Nom. Mus. 

 Hein. Orn. p. 304 (Chili and Montevideo) (1890) ; Holland, Ibis, 

 1892, p. 214 (Ai-gentine) ; Aplin, Ibis, 1894, p. 214 (Uruguay) ; 

 Sclat. Ibis, 1894, p. 453. 

 Tinamus maculosa, Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 636 (syn. emend.) (1877). 



Adult. Above pale yellowish, brown, barred with black and 

 brown and streaked with fulvous white : these streaks run on both 

 sides of the feathers of the back between the central dark portion 

 and the greyish lateral edges ; head and neck pale fulvous, with 

 the feathers striped with black along the middle ; upper part of the 

 head mostly brown ; throat immaculate white ; lower parts fulvous, 

 breast spotted with brown, sides with brown bars ; flanks with 

 brown bars, more or less crescentic; pi'imaries brown, with regular 

 pale fulvous marks on the outer web, and with regular brighter 

 fulvous bars on the inner web ; secondaries regularly barred with 

 pale brown aud fulvous ; asillaries and under wing-coverts uniform 

 fulvous, only the marginal ones of the latter with dusky spots : 

 " bill and feet yellowish brown " (Sclaier). Total length from 

 10 to 11 inches, wing 5-5, culmen 0*7, tarsus 1'4. 



Female. Similar, but larger. 



Young in doimi. " Head and neck still in down, dark brown lined 

 with pale buff ; a line starting at base of beak and forking into 

 two ; neck with the buff lines broader than the dark brown ones ; 

 body mottled buff and dark brown, with some little narrow white 

 marks " (Ajiliii). 



Hah. Argentine, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Southern Brazil. 



a. Ad. St. South America. Dr. J. E. Gray [P.]. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Ypanema, S. Brazil, Sept. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{Natterer). 



c,d. S 2 ad. sk. Uruguay, July, Aug. Alan Peel, Esq. [P.]. 



e. Ad. St. Maldonado, Jan. (C. Dancing. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Moute Video [Johnston). Salvin-Godman CoU. 



g. 2 ad. sk. Buenos Ayres, Feb. ( With- Sclater Coll. 



ington). 



2. Nothura nigroguttata. 



Similar to N. maculosa, but blacker above, the black marks of 

 the back being more conspicuous ; lower parts paler, yellowish rather 



