AVES TINAMID.-E. 



FIG. 14. 



Neck : Above fulvescent and spotted or streaked minutely with dusky 

 brown. Chin and upper throat immaculate white ; the lower throat and 

 rest of under neck abruptly fulvescent and more coarsely marked with 

 dusky brown than the top of the neck. Sides of the neck fulvescent, 

 marked with dusky brown. 



Back : Clear pale yellowish or golden brown, each feather with a 

 number of brown bars of varying shade, and with a whitish stripe on 

 either edge just inside of the fulvescent or brownish edge 

 mark of the feather (see fig. 14). Scapulars and lower back 

 similar. 



The upper tail coverts though similar in color and pattern, 

 are not very long but obscure the rudimentary rectrices. 



Wing : Most of the coverts similar in color and pattern to 

 the back. Those of the primaries more golden brown, without 

 the whitish streaks, but barred with arrow-shaped dark brown 

 marks. The quills with the outer webs clearly marked with 

 bars of pale creamy or fulvous and dark brown. The width of 

 the light bars at least twice that of the dark ones. The outer 

 primaries generally with plain inner webs, and the succeeding 

 ones as well as the remainder of the quills with more or less 

 fulvescent barring and marking on their inner webs, the inner- 

 most secondaries becoming much like the feathers of the back in color 

 and decoration. 



Lower Parts : Clear fulvous, the feathers of the breast spotted with 

 dark brown forming an obscure pectoral band which extends 

 down on the sides, where the markings assume a more barred 

 character, which becomes defined further down on the sides and 

 flanks. Lower wing coverts, lower tail coverts and axillaries 

 clear fulvous. 



Bill : Dull yellowish brown. 

 Iris : Dark hazel brown. 

 Feet and Legs : Dull yellowish brown. 



The adult female (P. U. O. C. No. 8,627, San Luis, Argen- 

 tine Republic, August, 1895, Museo de La Plata collection) is 

 similar to the adult male in color and markings. 



Geographical Range. Paraguay, Uruguay, southern Brazil, Argentina 

 and extreme northern Patagonia (Hudson ; Valley of the Rio Negro). 



Nothura 

 maculosa. 

 Feather 

 from back. 

 Enlarged. 



FIG. 15. 



Nothura 

 maculosa. 

 Breast fea- 

 ther. 



