TIN AM us Tataupa, var. 

 Tataiipa Tinamoiu 



Generic Character. 



•Rostrum mediocre, depressum, latius quam altum, apice rotundato ohtuso; cut- 

 mine lato, excelso. Nares laterales, media, ovate?, patula, apertce. Pedes 

 tetradactyli,Jissi; halluce brevissimo, insistente. Cauda nulla, aid hrevis- 

 sima, plumisuTopygii ohtectn. Alec breves. Temminck,vol. iii. p. 747. 

 Typus Genericus T. nifescens. Latham. 



Bill moderate, depressed, broader than high, tip obtuse, back broad. Nos- 

 trils lateral, medial, ovate, expanded and open. Feet four-toed, cleft; 

 feind toe very short. Tail none or very short, concealed by the rump- 

 feathers. Wings short. 



Generic Type T. rufescem. Latham. 



Specific Character. 



T. corpore suprci fusco-rufo, immaculato; capiie et collo fusco-nigro ; meyito 

 albo; gula, collo, pectoreque cinereis ; corpore infra alheseente ; uropygio 

 lateribusque posticis riifis aut nigris, pennis alho-mnrginatis. 



Tinamou with the body above dusky-rufous, immaculate. Head and neck 

 dusky-black; chin white; throat, neck and breast, cinereous; body 

 beneath whitish; vent and flanks rufous or black, the feathers mar- 

 gined with white. 



Tinamas Tataupa. Temminck Pig. et Gall. iii. p. 590 et 752. Gen. ZooL 

 vol. xi. part 2. p. 416. 



1 HE Tinamous are entirely confined to the new world, where 

 they seem to hold the same scale in creation which the Par- 

 tridges do in the old continent. Our kno\vlcdge of these sin- 

 gular birds has been much increased by the writings of Professor 

 Temminck, who has described twelve species. The present bird 

 is nearly the smallest of its family : I found it only once in tiie 

 interior of Bahia in Brazil, where it must be very rare, or iVc- 

 quent to particular districts only. Though differing in bornc rc- 

 Pl. 19. 



