AVES TINAMID^E. 



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Breast: Grayish buff with obscure bars of pale cinnamon on each 

 feather. 



Back : Pale grayish brown, with broad dusky and narrow buffy and 

 paler rufous bars. This color and marking is characteristic of 

 the rump, and upper wing and tail coverts. FIG. 12. 



Wing : Bastard wing, primaries, their coverts and secon- 

 daries bright cinnamon, rufous unmarked. Tertiaries grayish 

 with brown and buffy barring. Under wing coverts rufous. 



Tail : Like the back but grayer and barred with broader 

 dusky and narrow buffy gray markings. 



Lower parts: Gray with obscure dusky and buffy barring, 

 most apparent on the sides and flanks. 



Feet and legs dull brown. Bill horn. Iris hazel. 



Downy young are characterized by a general rufous tint on 

 head and neck, barred with longitudinal dusky stripes. The Rhyncho- 

 rest of the upper parts are barred with dusky and grayish white. tus ru f es - 

 The lower parts are pure white, sometimes with a cream tinge. w " 



Geographical Range. Argentina, northward to eastern and f oot i nat . 

 southern Brazil. South to Chubut and the plains of the north- ural size, 

 ern portion of southern Patagonia. 



This Tinamou was not procured by the naturalists of the Princeton 

 Expeditions to Patagonia. The material on which the descriptions are 

 based is the series of birds in the British Museum and from two individ- 

 uals in the Princeton University Museum cited in full below. 



These two representatives are examples of the pale southern race 

 noticed by Count Salvadori (Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XXVII, p. 549 (1895). 

 Barrows, speaking of this bird, says it is "Also called Martinete, as is 

 also the crested Tinamou (Calodromas elegans], which is found farther 

 south. The present species is a rather common resident at Concep- 

 cion, where it breeds. It frequents long grass and dense growths of 



