AVES TINAMID/E. 27 



Nothura perdicaria, Durnf. (nee Kittl.), Ibis, 1878, p. 405 (Chupat 

 Valley and in the Valleys of the Sengel and Sengelen) ; Burm. An. 

 Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, III. part X. p. 245 (1888: Patagonia). 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 



Size. Male Adult. Total length, about 10 inches. 



Wing, 5.2 inches. 



Culmen, 0.8 inches. 



Tarsus, 1.2 inches. 



The adult female is somewhat larger than the adult male. 



Color. Adult Male. Similar in markings and color to N. maculosa, 

 but paler and grayer below and without the clear white chin and upper 

 throat. Much browner and darker above and the streaking of the feathers 

 not whitish but fulvescent, and the mesial part of the feathers of the back 

 chestnut brown and the barring almost black; all the markings as the 

 upper parts much finer. 



Geographical Range. Northern Patagonia and the Argentine Republic. 



Darwin's Tinamou was not obtained by the naturalists of the Princeton 

 Expeditions. The description given is based on material in the British 

 Museum of Natural History. 



Mr. Hudson's remarks on this bird and its habits have appeared under 

 the last species, N. maculosa, as they seemed more pertinent in that con- 

 nection. 



Of Nothura minor (= Nothura darwini] Darwin writes: 



" I procured a specimen of this bird at Bahia Blanca, in northern Pata- 

 gonia, where it frequented the sand-dunes and the surrounding sterile 

 plains. Its habits appear similar to the N. major, but it lies closer and 

 does not so readily take to the wing. It is the smallest of the species 

 mentioned in this work, and its plumage is less distinctly spotted. The 

 egg of this bird is described below. Spix's specimens were obtained at 

 Tijucco in Brazil. The figure in his work on the Birds of Brazil, differs 

 slightly from mine, in being less marked on the breast." (Darwin, 

 " Voy. H. M. S. Beagle," Zool. Bds., 1841, p. 119.) 



