42 BULLETIN 117, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Faunal papers treating of a small part of the known species of 

 birds may be regarded as catalogues, rather than expositions of 

 classification. To facilitate their use, particularly when as "extras" 

 they appear without indices, their authors should, in my opinion, 

 adopt a current, standard classification, even when it does not wholly 

 embody their own views. I have, therefore, followed here Sharpe's 

 order of arrangement as it is employed by Brabourne and Chubb in 

 their Birds of South America, using also the enumeration of species 

 given in that work. The addition of a letter to a number mdicates 

 that the species in question is not contained in Brabourne and Chubb 's 

 list. 



Eidgway's Color Standards and Color Nomenclature (Washington, 

 1912) has been accepted as authoritative. 



When no specimens are listed it is understood that the species is 

 n eluded on the authority cited. 



DISTEIBUTIONAL SUMMARY. 



Number 

 of species. 



Of general distribution 15 



North American migrants 8 



Tropical Zone 115 



Subtropical Zone 105 



Temperate Zone 63 



Puna or Paramo Zone 74 



Total 380 



Order CRYPTURIFORMES. 



FamUy TINAMIDAE. 



TINAMOUS. 



(4) TINAMUS TAG Temminck. 



Tinamus tao Temminck, Pig. et Gallin., vol. 3, 1815, pp. 569, 749 ("Para, 

 Bresil"). 



No comparison made with other specimens. 

 Rio Comberciato, 1 male; Rio Cosireni, 1 male; Rio San Miguel, 

 1 male, 1 female. 



(7) TINAMUS MAJOR RUFICEPS Sclater and Salvin. 



Tinamm ruficeps SchATER and Salvin, Nomen. Av. Neotr., 1873, p. 162 (Rio 

 Napo, Ec). 



A male and female from the Rio Cosireni agree in color with 

 average specimens from Colombia, but have a shorter wing, meas- 

 uring, respectively, wing, 200 and 205 mm. as compared with au 

 average of 230 mm. in the Colombian bird. 



Rio Cosireni, 2. 



