6. NoinuRA. 563 



breast more greyish, the greyish mesial portion of the feathers 

 being broader and the brown bars better defined. 



Hub. Patagonia, and ajiparently also the Argentine llepublic, 

 near Cordova. 



ISpecimens from Cordova require comparison. 



a. Ad. sk. ]5ahia Blauca (C Danvin). Zool. Soc. (Type of 



species.) 



b,c. (5 $ ad. Rio Negro, Patagonia, April, Salvia-Godman Coll. 



sk. Julv ( W. 11. Hudson). 



d,e. $ ad.sk. Puo Negro, April, Oct. W. II. Hudson, Esq. [C.]. 



/. S ad.sk. Cosquin,Cordova. Argent. Rep., yalvin-Godman Coll. 

 June {E. A. White). 



7. Nothura media. 



Tinanuis medius, Spi.v, Av. Bra.s. ii. p. 6o, t. 81 flig. mala $?; 

 Tejuco) (1825) ; Temm. PI. Col., qenrv Tinamou, sp. 3 and foot- 

 note (182G) ; Less. Man. d'Om. ii. p. 20o (1828) ; id. Compl. de 

 Buff. 2nd ed. Ois. p. 237 (1838). 



Tinamus minor, SpLc, Av. Bras. ii. p. Go, t. 82 (fig. malai^ ? ; Tejuco, 

 Minas Geraes) (1825) ; Temm. PL Col., genre Tinamou, sp. 5 

 (part.) (1826). 



Tinamus brevipes. Natter. Mus. Vindob., fide Temm. PI. Col., genre 

 Tinamou, footnote (1820) ; cf. Pelz. Oni. Bras. p. 205 (1871). 



Nothura medius, part., Wagl. Si/st. Av., (/en. Nothura, sp. 3 (1827) ; 

 Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 513, n. 3 (part.) (1831). 



Nothura minor, If'affl. S'l/st. Av., gen. Nothura, sp. 4 (1827) ; id. Isis, 

 1829, p. 747 (not = N. nana, $); Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 513, n. 4 

 (1831) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. iii. p. 525, n. 4 (1844) ; Rchnb. Syn. Av., 

 Gallinaceffi, t. 28(3. f. 1577 (1848) (e.v Spix) ; Bp. Compt. Rend. 

 xlii. p. 881, n. 340 (1856) ; id. Tabl. Parall. Gallin. {Extract), p. 12, 

 n. 342 (1856) ; Burm. Th. Bras. iii. p. 331, n. 3 (1856) ; G. R. Gr. 

 List Gallina B. M. p. 105, n. 7 (1867); id. Hand-list, iii. p. 6, 

 n. 9907 (1871) : Schleg. Mus. P.-B., Tinami, p. 45 (1880). 



Nothura media, Wai/l. Isis, 1829, p. 747 ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 295 

 (Fazenda do Rio Verde, Ytarare, Irisanga), pp. 454, hi (1871) ; 

 G. R. Gr. Hand-list, iii. p. 5, n. 9904 (Brazil) (1871); Sclat. ^ 

 Salv. Nom. Av. Neotrop. p. 153, n. 4 (Brazil) (1873) ; Schleg. Mus. 

 P.-/?., Tinami, p. 45 (1880); Grant, Ibis, 1889, p. 449*; Allen, 

 Bull. Amer. Mus. N. H. p. 152 (Matto Grosso) (1893). 



Nothurus minor, part., Sw. Class. B. ii. p. 345 (1837). 



Tinanuis plmubeus (?), Mus. Paris, fide Less. Cumpl. de Buff". 2nded., 

 Ois. p. 237 (note) (1838). 



Nothura maculosa, part., G. R. Gr. Gen. B. iii. p. 525, n. 3 (1844) ; 

 Hartl. Erst. Xaclitr. Verz. Ges. Mm. p. 17, n. 191 (1846) ; Rchnb. 

 [nee Temm.) Si/n. Av., Gallinacese, t. 286. f. 1576 (1848) (e.v 

 Spi.v) ; Bp. [uec Temm.) Comjyt. Rend. xlii. p. 881, n. 339 (1856); 

 id. Tabl. Parall. Gallin. (Extract), p. 12, n. 341 (1856); Burm. 

 Th. Bras. iii. p. 330 (part.) (1856); LL-inh. fid. Medd. naturh. 

 Foren. Kjobenh. 1870, p. 52 (Curvelo). 



* Mr. Ogilvie Grant says that Tiiniir variegatus, Vieill. (N. D. xxsv. p. 47 ; 

 Enc. Mi'th. i. p. o3(t, pi. 232. f. 4), is probably a Tinamou {Nothura media), but I 

 cannot find that cither the description or the plate agrees with the latter bird. 



