AVES TINAMID^. 



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the south and west. The eggs are polished, but of a greenish tint, and 

 are said to be commonly five or six in number. The flesh is fairly palata- 

 ble. (Barrows, Auk, I, 4, p. 318, 1884.) 



Genus TINAMOTIS Vigors. 



Type. 



Twnmofis, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 79; Salvad. Cat. Birds, 

 Brit. Mus. XXVII. p. 567 (1895); Sharpe, Hand-List 



Bds. I. 12 (1899) T. peiit/amU. 



Geographical Range. — South America. From the Andes of Peru and 



Ecuador, southward to northern Chile and also northern Patagonia. 



TiNAMOTIS INGOUFI Oustalct. 



Tinamotis ingoufi, Oust. Ann. Sc. Nat. Zool. IX. p. 18 (1890: Santa 

 Cruz, Patagonia) ; id. Miss. Sci. Cap Horn, Oiseaux, pp. 105, 106, 

 pi. I (1891); Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXVII. p. 569 (1895); 

 Sharpe, Hand-List B. I. p. 12 (1899). 



General description. 



Size. — (Female type.) Total length, 15.5 inches. 



Wing, 8.0 inches. 



Tail, 2.75 inches. 



Culmen, i.o inch. 



Tarsus, 1.25 inches. 



Color. — (Female type.) Upper parts 

 slaty with a buff tinge, each feather having 

 a V-shaped brown mark of varying size, 

 bounded by a narrow creamy buff margin. 



Head : With dusky slate and buffy white 

 stripes. Upper part of head dusky slate, 

 with a buffy white band on either side join- 

 ing on the occiput. 



Throat : Buffy white, with dusky slate 

 spots. 



Fig. 19. 



Tinamotis ingotifi. Profile and pat- 

 tern of marking of head and neck. ^ 

 natural size. 



