66 CLASS AVES. 



Heteroclite Grous. Lath. Tet. Paradoxa. Pal. 

 Voy. Vieill. Gal. 222. DHeteroclite. Tem. 

 % Col. 25. 



Fulvous ; crown and bottom of neck and belly, vina- 

 ceous ; edge of lower neck feather and wing-coverts, 

 black, and belly-band black ; tail and quill, blackish- 

 ash ; fulvous edged. Vieillofs figure is coloured from 

 description. 



We are also obliged to separate from Tetrao 



TiNAMUs. Lath. Cryp- 

 TURUs. 111. Ynambus of Azara.* 



An American genus, very remarkable for a thin, 

 long neck, (although the tarsi are short,) covered 

 with feathers, the end of the barbs of which are 

 slender, and slightly frizzled, which gives to this 

 portion of their plumage a particular appearance. 

 The bill is long, thin, blunt at the end, sHghtly 

 *^ vaulted, with a little furrow on each side ; and the 

 nostrils are pierced in the middle on each side, and 

 tend obliquely backward. Their wings are short, 

 and they have scarcely any tail. The web at the 

 * base of their toes is very short. The thumb reduced 

 to a little spur, cannot touch the ground. There is 

 a slight nudity round the eye. 



These birds perch upon low branches, or hide 

 themselves in high grass ; they live on fruits and 



* Except his Choro, which is a water fowl ; and his Uru, which is the 

 Tocro of which we have already spoken among the Partridges. 



