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extending to Panama ; T. m. serratus, Spix, Venezuela, 

 Central and Northern Brazil ; T. m. peruvianas, Bonap., 

 Peru. T. latifrons, Salvador], is still represented by two 

 examples from Western Ecuador. T. robustus inexpectatus 

 is a new subspecies from N. Ecuador. 



The type of blasiusi, Dubois (Mem. Soc. Zool. France, 

 1894, p. 404), is, as Count Salvadori stated (Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xxvii. p. 498, 1895), an example of T. tao kleei, Bonap., 

 but it is certainly not the bird that Bonaparte described in 

 the ■ Comptes Rendus* (Paris), xliii. p. 573 (1856). T.blasii, 

 Gray (List Spec. Birds Brit. Mus. part v., Gallinse, 1867, 

 p. 101), is a uomen nudum, and Dubois's name must be 

 separately treated. 



We describe herewith : — 



Tinamus tao septentrionalis, subsp. n. 



Differs from T. tao tao by the absence of the broad black 

 bars on the upper surface, which are replaced by fine vermi- 

 cidations, especially on the upper back, where the general 

 colour is olive ; the underparts are also more finely vermi- 

 culated and the breast almost uniform lead-grey. 



Total length 580 mm. ; culiuen 41 ; wing 281 ; tail 105 ; 

 tarsus 77. 



Type. ? . Plains of Cumana, Venezuela ; in Rothschild 

 Museum, Tring. J 1 and other specimens in British Museum. 



Tinamus robustus inexpectatus, subsp. n. 



Adult male. General colour above chestnut olive-brown, 

 barred with black; upper tail-coverts more uniform and 

 margined at the tips with rufous-buff, tail-feathers chestnut- 

 brown mottled with black ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 aud quills dark brown, the secondaries mottled with rufous- 

 brown on the outer webs, some of the innermost mottled on 

 both webs at the tips ; crown of head entirely black ; sides 

 of face and hind neck sandy-buff, minutely barred with 

 black ; ear-coverts blackish ; chin dull white ; fore neck 

 more inclining to olive, with a submarginal line of black to 

 the feathers, which gives a scalloped appearance ; breast and 

 sides of body olive-brown, with black and white frecklings on 

 the middle of the abdomen ; lower flanks and thighs pale 

 buff, barred with dark brown ; the extreme lower portion of 

 tibia uniform brown ; under tail-coverts bright rufous-buff, 

 coarsely mottled with dark brown ; under wing-coverts 

 brown, some with pale margins ; greater series and inner 



