12 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



and whitish on the middle of the latter ; flanks also dull mPotis 

 with dark cross-bars on the lower portion ; under tail-coverts 

 black mottled with buff and tipped with white. 



Total lenoth 280 mm., culmen 28, wing 155, tail 47, tarsus 59, 

 middle toe and claw 26. 



The above doscription is that of a bird collected on the Kamuni 

 River. 



The adnlt female differs from the adnlt male in beincr more 

 rufous on the fore-neck and more barred on the back and wings, 

 and, moreover, by its sliglitlj larger size. Wing 170 mm. 



There are two more examples ofc" this species, one collected on 

 Ituribisi lliver and the other on the Abary Itiver. They are 

 similar to the bird described, but differ in being more barred on 

 the lower back, the white edgings to the wing-coverts on the 

 upper surface paler, and more barred on the under surface. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribcd from British Guiana. 



Range restricted to British Guiana. Kannmi River, Ituribisi 

 River, Abary River {McConnell collection) ; Quonga River 

 [Whitehj) ; Corentyne River [Im Tlmm), 



Habits. Schomburgk says (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 748) that the 

 habits of this bird are the same as those of C. variegatiis^ but he 

 has never found its nest. 



7. Cryp turns variegatus. 



Variegated Tinamou. 



Cryphtrus vnriogatus (Gmel.), Syst, Nat. i, p. 7G8, 17S9 (Guiana); 

 Cat), in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 748, 184S ; Salvin, Ibis, ISSG, 

 p. ISl (Camacusa, Merume Mts.); Quelch, Timehri (2) iv. p. 320, 

 1890 (Upper Berbice River) ; Lloyd Price, op. cit. v. p. 68, 1891 

 (nest and es^gs) ; Salvad. Cat. B. Brit Mus. xxvii. p. 535, 1895 

 (Takutu River); Lloyd, Timcliri (2) xi. p. 2, 1897; Beebe, Our 

 Search for a Wilderness, p. 330, 1910 (Areuiu River) ; Brabourne 

 & Chubb, B. S. Anier. i. p. 4, no. 30, 1912. 



Crypturus variegatus varirgatus Brabourne «fc Cliubb, Ann. <S Alag. Nat. 

 Hist. (8) xiv. p. 320, October 1914. 



"Mamoo Swagger : Small Maam " (Lloyd). 



Adult. Upper surface including the back, wings, and tail 

 black with orange-buff cross-bars to the feathers ; bastard-wing, 



