!). TINAJIOTIS. 567 



pule fulvous ; the fulvous spots roundish and very couspicuous ; 

 head greyish, each feather witli a mesial black streak ; a long re- 

 curved vertical crest of black feathers, partly edged with cinereous ; 

 two whitish bands start from above the eyes and run along the 

 sides of the nape; another whitish baud starts from the base of the 

 upper mandible and crosses the cheeks under the eyes ; throat 

 whitish ; neck greyish, each feather with a mesial blackish stripe ; 

 the feathers of the lower neck with a mesial black stripe, two pale 

 lateral stripes, and numerous black cross bars ; remainder of the 

 lower parts huffish white, with numerous black bars, more or less 

 crescentic, the abdomen almost uniform ; primaries greyish black, 

 on the outer web regularly spotted, on the inner web regularly 

 barred with huffish white ; secondaries barred on both webs ; under 

 wing-coverts variegated with greyish brown and whitish, the last 

 row pale grey with whitish bars, irregularly crescentic ; tail barred 

 across with blackish and huffish white : " bill blackish ; feet bluish 

 grey " (ScJater) ; " iris dark " (Hudson). Total length about 14-5 

 inches, wing 8-5, tail 3-25, culmen 1"1, tarsus I'D. 



Female. Similar to the male. 



Young in down. Upper parts greyish brown, thickly dotted with 

 black at the tip of many downy feathers, while other feathers are 

 striped with white : a conspicuous brownish crest ; two white bands — 

 one from above the eyes, down the sides of the neck, the other from 

 the base of the upper mandible under the eyes ; throat and abdo- 

 men white ; lower fore neck and upper breast greyish, with some 

 dusky spots and white stripes. 



Hah. Southern part of S. America, from S. Uruguay to Argentina 

 and Patagonia. Both Gray and Schlegel erroneously mention 

 specimens from Chili ! and Sclater mentions eggs collected in the 

 Falklands ! 



a, b, c. Ad. et juv. st. [Chih] I'robably Meudoza *. T. Bridges, Esq. [C.]. 

 & sk. ■ 



d. Ad. St. Mendoza, Argent. Republic, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



March (Burmeister). 



e. 5 ad. St. Mendoza,Feb.( Wem/irt?/;;0- Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 f-h. Pull. sk. Vicinity cf Mendoza {Ley- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



hold), 

 i. $ ad. sk. Rio Negro, Patagonia, Oct. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( W. H. Hudson), 

 k. Pull. sk. Gould Coll. 



9. TINAMOTIS. I'yF- 



Tinamotis, Viijors, P. Z. S. 183G, p. 79 T. peutlaudi. 



Range. S. America from the Andes of Peru, and probably also of 

 Ecuador, to N. Chili, Bolivia, and also Patagonia. 



» Cf. P. Z. S. 1847, p. 28. 



