32 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS : ZOOLOGY. 



Neck : Two buffy white stripes on each side, one beginning above and 

 the other below the eye proceed down each side of the neck. A single 

 dusky slate stripe on the back of the neck, and one on each side of the 

 neck between the buffy white stripes. Back and wing coverts : Slate with 

 the V-shaped marks of brown having narrow creamy buff borders, con- 

 spicuous. 



Wings : Primary quills, uniform bright cinnamon. Secondaries, bright 

 cinnamon with dusky markings, not bands. 



Tail : Coverts like back. Feathers slaty olive with irregular barring 

 and markings of creamy buff. 



Lower parts : Upper breast much like back with similar V-shaped marks 

 to each feather. These are more slaty and the narrow cream buff border- 

 ing is paler. Lower breast : Paler, almost white as to ground color, with 

 dusky crescent marks on each feather. Lower abdomen and under tail 

 coverts pate rnfoiis. 



Feet lead color. 



Iris pale yellow. 



Geographical Range. — The type, the only representative so far known, 

 was taken in eastern Patagonia, in the vicinity of Santa Cruz, i8 October, 

 1882, by M. Lebrun. 



The type of this species described by Dr. E. Oustaletis, so far as yet ascer- 

 tained the only specimen in any of the collections made in South America. 

 I have by the courtesy of the authorities of the Paris Museum, Jardin des 

 Plantes, been able to examine carefully and study the characters of this 

 little-known bird. 



While in certain ways it betrays its relationship to Tinamotis penttandi, 

 its close ally, yet as pointed out both by Dr. Oustalet and Count Salvadori, 

 it is readily distinguishable from that species by its nniform bright cinna- 

 7non primary quills. 



Order COLUMBIFORMES. 



Sharpe, Hand-List Bds. Vol. I. p. 51 (1899). 



