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TINAMTDJB. 



Nothura darwini, Gray. 



Nothura darwini, Scl. $ Huds. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 547 ; iid. Argent. Orn. 

 ii. p. 213 (1889) ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. p. 562 (1895) ; 

 Sharpe, Hand-l i. p. 11 (1899). 



The single egg of Darwin's Tinamou in the Collection is an 

 elongated ellipse, the two ends being precisely similar. In colour 

 it is undistinguishable from the majority of the eggs of N. maculosa. 

 It measures 2 by 1*25. 



1. Uruguay. A. K. MacKinnon, Esq. [P.]. 



Sub-Family TINAMOTIDINJE. 



In this sub-family the eggs are usually of a regular elliptical 

 form and always of a green colour. 



Genus CALOPEZUS, Ridgiv. 



Calopezus elegans (D'Orb. $ Geoffr.). 

 (Plate I. fig. 4.) 



Eudromia elegans, Hudson, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 545. 



Calodromus elegans, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 311 j id. Zool ' Chali: 



Exped. viii. p. 152 (1880) ; Scl. $ Huds. Argent. Orn. ii. p. 214 



(1889). 

 Calopezus elegans, Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. p. 566 (1895) : 



Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 12 (1899). 



The eggs of the Martineta Tinamou vary in colour from pale 

 yellowish -green to dark sage-green. They measure from 2 to 

 2*25 in length, and from 1/5 to 1*55 in breadth. 



1. South Brazil (G. Hartlaub). Salvin-Godinan Coll. 



1. South Brazil (H. Burmeister). Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



3. Argentine Republic, Dec. A. H. Holland, Esq. [C.l. 



2. West Falklands. * Voy. H.M.S. 'Challenger.' 



Genus TINAMOTIS, Vigors. 



Tinamotis pentlandi, Vigors. 

 (Plate I. fig. 5.) 



Tinamotis pentlandi, James, New List of Chilian Birds, p. 14 (1892) j 

 Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. p. 568 (1895) ; Lane, Ibis, 1897, 

 p. 316; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 12 (1899). 



Of the four eggs of Pentland's Tinamou in the Collection, two 



* These eggs are certainly those of C. elegans, but some mistake has 

 probably been made regarding the locality in which they were collected. 



