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70 CLASS AVES. 



Spotted Tinamou. Lath, H. Tin. Vnambui, n. 327, 

 d'Azara. T. Maculosus, Tern, or T. Major, 

 Spix. 80. 



Body, above, brownish-red ; feathers, white-spotted, 

 reddish-fringed ; secondaries, red and black banded ; 

 throat, white ; neck and chesty black-streaked. Pa- 

 raguay. Length, nine or ten inches. The Cryptura 

 Fasciata of Vieil. N. I). 



Tin. Medius, Spix. t. 81. 



Above, reddish, black banded, strigilated with white ; 

 beneath, ferrugineous ; chest, ferrugineous and black 

 spotted ; wing-coverts, black banded ; tail, long. 

 Length, eight inches. 



Wagler regards Tinamus Major, Spix. as a species 

 by itself, and thinks that T. Medius, Spix. is the 

 source of T. Maculosus, Temm. 



Tin. Boraquira, Sp. 79. 



Whitish, white strigilated ; back, brown, black banded 

 And lincolated ; throat, belly, and thighs, white ; crop, 

 brown spotted ; chests, sides, and wing-coverts, whitish 

 black waved. Length, ten inches. 



Tin. Canape. T. Pavoninus. 

 Tern., of which Tin. Mirwr, Sp. 81, appears to be the 

 female. 



Female : above, red, slightly, black lettered, and 

 white strigilated ; beneath, ferrugineous"; head, red, 

 black lettered ; wing-coverts, whitish black banded. 

 Length, seven inches. 



These three species are very much alike. They 

 form the genus Nothura of Wagler. 



We ought to distinguish Rhynchotus, of Spix. in 



