210 TINAMIDjE. 



The eggs are usually five in number, nearly round, highly polished, 

 and of a dark-reddish-purple or wine colour; but this beautiful tint 

 in a short time changes to a dull leaden hue. The nest is a mere 

 scrape, insufficiently lined with a few grass-leaves. The young birds 

 appear to leave the mother (or father, for it is probable that the male 

 hatches the eggs) at a very early period. When still very small they 

 are found living, like the adults, a solitary life, with their faculties, 

 including those of flight and the melodious voice, in a high state of 

 perfection. 



428. NOTHOPRQCTA PENTLANDI (Gray). 

 (PENTLAND'S TINAMOU.) 



Rhynchotus pentlandii, G. E. Gray, List of Gall B. M. p. 103 (1867). 



Rhynchotus punctulatus, G. R. Gray, ibid. (jr.). Nothoprocta 



doeringi, Cab. J. /. O. 1878, p. 198 (Cordova) ; White, P. Z 8. 1883, 

 p. 432 (Cordova). 



Description. Above cinereous ; head and back banded with black bars, which 

 are bordered with ochraceous; back also varied with longitudinal whitish 

 streaks ; wings cinereous, with pale ochraceous cross bars on the outer webs : 

 beneath pale cinereous ; throat whitish ; breast and sides of belly with rounded 

 whitish spots ; middle of belly creamy white ; bill and feet reddish : whole 

 length 8-0 inches, wing 5-5, tail 2-0. 



Hob. Andes of Bolivia and Northern Argentina. 



We have been able to compare a typical specimen of Nothoprocta 

 doeringi, received from Dr. Doering of Cordova, with the series of 

 specimens of this group in the British Museum, and find that 

 Dr. Cabanis^s name must give way to G. R. Gray's prior designation. 

 Dr. Doeriug's specimens of this species were obtained in the Sierra de 

 Cordova. The original example of Nothoprocta pentlandi was procured 

 by Pentland, the well-known scientific traveller (after whom it is called), 

 in the Andes of Bolivia. 



429. NOTHOPROCTA CINERASCENS (Burm.). 

 (CINEREOUS TINAMOU.) 



Nothura cinerascens, Burm. La-Plata Rdse, ii. p. 498 (Cordova, Tucuman) ; 

 Sakin, Ibis, 1880, p. 364 (Tucuman) ; White, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 43 (Cordova). 

 Nothoprocta cinerascens, Cab. J.f. O. 1878, p. 198 (Cordova). 



Description. Above cinereous ; head and whole back banded with black and 

 pale brown and streaked with fulvous white : beneath pale ashy white ; breast 



