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TAO TINAMOU. 
(Tinamus Tao.) 
Ti. corporc supra nigrescente, cinerco undulato, supcrcilils stria 
cervicali genis colloque superiore macuUs nigris ef albis con- 
spersis, ventre cinerascente, dilutiore nndulato, ahdotnine rvfo 
nigro undulato. 
Tinaraou with the body above dusky, undulated with grey 5 the 
supercilia, cervical stria, the cheeks, and upper part of the 
neck, sprinkled with black and white spots ; the belly greyish, 
undulated with paler ; the abdomen rufous, undulated with 
black. 
Tinamus Tao, Temm. Gall. Ind. p. ^4g. 
Tinamou Tao. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. p. 56g. 
The total length of this species is twenty inches : 
its head is dusky, with grey spots : the sides of 
the forehead and a dash passing over the eyes, to 
the middle of the posterior part of the neck, where 
the dash of the opposite side forms an union 5 
these, and also the cheeks, the under part of the 
throat, and the upper part of the base of the neck, 
as well as its sides, are varied with black and 
w'hite : the chin and the throat are white, ob- 
scurely varied with dusky : the sides of the head 
are dusky, and a dash of the same covers the ears, 
and descends in a band towards the under })art of 
the neck, separating the variegated superciliary 
line from the rest of the neck; the lower part of 
which and the breast are grey, finely dotted with 
dusky : the whole of the back, the rump, and the 
