TiXA^irs. — cuYPTunrs. 7 



gives the followinn- note : — " After a lialf-liour's walk Franeis 

 motioned n)e to take the greatest care, and pressed my shoulder 

 lower until I was almost on my knees while we slowly crept 

 around a great mora trunk. He pointed steadily ahead, but after 

 a three-minute scrutiny I could discern not a sign of life. Then 

 he raised his gun and fired, and set loose a half-dozen feathered 

 bombs, or so it sounded as a flock of nearly full-grown Guiana 

 Crested Tinamou arose with a roar. I secured one with a quick 

 snap shot and we tied up the brace of birds with a slender tough 

 bush-thread. Fastening head, feet, and wings together, the 

 Indian tied them ingeniously around his waist, the birds hanging 

 dow^n behind out of the way." 



Mr. C. A. Lloyd (Timehri (2) xi. p. 1) gives the following 

 notes: — "The large ' Maam,' Tinamus suhcristuttis, one of tlie 

 commonest of our game birds, generally selects the bank of a 

 small creek as the site for its nest, which it often places between 

 the spurs of a Mora, DhnorjiJiandra mora. The nest simply 

 consists of a slight depression in the ground lined with dead leaves. 

 The fggf', which number from seven to eight, are almost spherical 

 in shape, and of a bluish-green colour, having the glossy sheen 

 peculiar to the eggs of the Tinamous, a character which dis- 

 tinguishes them at once from other eggs. 



"According to the statements of numy old bnshmen, this bird 

 sometimes lays as many as ten eggs, but we never recollect having 

 taken more than eiiiht at one time." 



Genus CKYPTURUS Illig. 



C'rijplitrus Illiger, Prodr. Syst. Maunn. et Av. p. 2-1-i, ISII. Type 

 C. cinereus (Gmel.). 



Tiiis genus differs from Tinamus l)y the smaller size of the 



birds, the sliorter tails, and the absence of the hoxaoonal scales 



on the hinder portion of the tarsus wliich is smooth like the front 



p(jrtion. 



Kfi)/ to the Sj>eries. 



A. llppor snrfaoo imiforni. 



a'. Jiack sooty-bhu.'k; hwul dark nitons ; breast 



and abdomen black C. inaccniinrlli, jv H. 



h' . liack and abdomen finnamon-brown C. cincrcuii, \t. ^d. 



c' . Ijuck chestnut ; head black ; breast and 



abdomen bright rufous C. son/, p. 10. 



(!'. Hack cinnamon-brown ; head blackish in 



tVonl. rufous on liiiuler crown ; breast 



^rey ; alxlomen <lull ndous ('. i/(iii)//ii/7/K, p. II, 



