V'^'-''^^ ^^^^>'^. 



THE IBIS. 



SEVENTH SERIES. 



No. I. JANUARY 1895. 



I. — A Contribution to the Pterylography of the Tinami- 

 formes. By W. P. Pycraft, M.B.O.U.^ Assistant to the 

 Linacre Professor of Comparative Anatomy^ Oxford. 



(Plates I.-III.) 



Some time since, Dr. Sclater forwarded me an adult and 

 two nestlings of tlie Martineta Tinamou, Calodromas 

 elegans, and, later on, an adult of the Rufous Tinamou, 

 Rhynchotis rufescens, requesting at the same time that 

 I would furnish him with a report thereon for the pages of 

 ' The Ibis.' 



The present paper may be considered as the first section 

 of this report, and describes the pterylosis of these birds. 

 I have assumed, as a matter of course, that my readers are 

 acquainted with the salient features of the science of 

 pterylography, and therefore I have not attempted to preface 

 my descriptions with introductory remarks appertaining 

 thereto. 



My investigations have been carried out in the laboratories 

 of the Department of Comparative Anatomy of the Museum, 

 at such odd moments as I could manage to spare from other 

 and more pressing work, and thus, perhaps, ray apparent 



SER. VII. VOL. I. B 



