AVES TINAMID^. 



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Breast: Grayish buff with obscure bars of pale cinnamon 

 feather. 



Back : Pale grayish brown, with broad dusky and narrow b 

 paler rufous bars. This color and marking is characteristic of 

 the rump, and upper wing and tail coverts. 



Wing : Bastard wing, primaries, their coverts and secon- 

 daries bright cinnamon, rufous unmarked. Tertiaries grayish 

 with brown and buffy barring. Under wing coverts rufous. 



Tail : Like the back but grayer and barred with broader 

 dusky and narrow buffy gray markings. 



Lower parts : Gray with obscure dusky and buffy barring, 

 most apparent on the sides and flanks. 



Feet and legs dull brown. Bill horn. Iris hazel. 



Downy young are characterized by a general rufous tint on 

 head and neck, barred with longitudinal dusky stripes. The 

 rest of the upper parts are barred with dusky and grayish white. 

 The lower parts are pure white, sometimes with a cream tinge. 



Geographical Range. — Argentina, northward to eastern and 

 southern Brazil. South to Chubut and the plains of the north- 

 ern portion of southern Patagonia. 



Rhyncho- 

 tiis riifcs- 

 ccns. Low- 

 er leg and 

 foot. \ nat- 

 ural size. 



This Tinamou was not procured by the naturalists of the Princeton 

 Expeditions to Patagonia. The material on which the descriptions are 

 based is the series of birds in the British Museum and from two individ- 

 uals in the Princeton University Museum cited in full below. 



These two representatives are examples of the pale southern race 

 noticed by Count Salvadori (Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XXVII, p. 549 (1895). 

 Barrows, speaking of this bird, says it is "Also called Marfincte, as is 

 also the crested Tinamou [Calodromas ekgans), which is found farther 

 south. The present species is a rather common resident at Concep- 

 cion, where it breeds. It frequents long grass and dense growths of 



