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aud indistinctly burred with wavy lines and specks of blackish; tail 

 similar, but with a faint chestnut tinge. Wings dull blackish brown ; 

 the i)rimaries, except the first, with faint, nearly obsolete barrings on 

 tlie outer web; exposed portion of .secondaries irregularly spotted or 

 marked with buff; wing- ccj verts light grayish olive, irregularly and 

 hnely mottled and spotted with buff and dull black, some of the feathers 

 dull black on the inner web, with brownish edgings. Breast and Jugu- 

 lum daik gray, fenthers faintly tipped with burnt-umber, just enough 

 to give the gray color a soih^d appearance; throat dusky grayish white, 

 passing gradually into the gray of the jngulum; chin, malar region, 

 auriculars, lores, anterior part of forehead, and bioad superciliary 

 stripe tawny; a dusky streak before eyes; upper part of auriculars 

 brownish bla(;k. Lower breast, sides, and encroaching to some extent 

 on abdomen, l>uffy ochraceous; rest of sides light olive-brown; al)do- 

 meu creamy buff, changing to almost white posteriorly; flanks and 

 under tail coverts buff, rather conspicuously but unevenly barred with 

 black. 



The American Museum specimen has more tawny on the head, the 

 whole pileum being tinged with it; the bufty ochraceous is more exten- 

 sive on the sides; the flanks and under tail-coverts are not nearly so 

 cons])icuously barred, and the back, rum}), u[)per tail-coverts, and tail 

 are strongly tinged with brownish buff. 



The following measurements may be useful : 



The length of wing, given in Mr. Salvin's original description is 4.20 

 inches. The American Museum specimen, formeily in Mr. Lawrence's 

 collection, is labeled '■'- Odoniophorus ruhigcnis Lawr.," but I am not 

 aware that any description was ever published. The specimen was col- 

 lected a year or so after the description of <>. Kpodiostetlms appeared. 



Family TINAMID^E. 



240. Tinamus robustus tScl. 



liathcr common in the forest on the Escondido. Those shot weie 

 extremely fat, and the flesh very tender, white, with a greenish tinge. 

 These birds are known as "Mountain Hens," and probably one of the 

 species of Tinamou is the one called "Six o'clock IJird," which has a 

 very melancholy call of three syllables, uttered about sundown, and 

 also o<-casionally during the day. 



241. Crypturus pileatus (Hodd.). 

 Common in the forest on the Escondido. Iris light brown. 



