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SPOTTED TINAMOU. 
the beah, which is long, and strongly curved, is of 
a brown-bhie ; the feet are pale red. 
This is the most beautiful of the genus; it is a 
native of Paraguay, residing among thick herbage : 
it feeds night and morning, when it utters its cry, 
which is melancholy and feeble : the female deposits 
seven eggs, of a tine brilliant violet hue, in a nest, 
or rather a hollow, situated beneath tufts of grass ; 
the young resicie within a short distance of each 
other, and not in families. 
SPOTTED TINAMOU. 
(Tinamus maculosus.) 
Ti. corporc supra Jiiscescente-rufo, plumis maculis nigris con- 
spersis et rujescente-albo jimbriatis^ remigibus secundariis trayis- 
versim rpfo nigroque striatis, gutture albo, collo pectoreque 
maculis longitudinalibus nigris. 
Tinamou with the body above brownish red j the feathers 
sprinkled with black spots, and edged with reddish white j the 
secondary quills striped transversely with red and black j the 
throat white j the neck and breast with longitudinal black 
spots. 
Tinamus maculosus. Temm. Gall. Ind. p. 748. 
Tinamou Ynambui. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3.p. 557 • 
Length ten inches : the feathers on the top of 
the head are deep brown, marked with white, and 
bordered with reddish : the throat is white ; the 
