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length : the whole of the plumage is of an uniform 
grey-brown, shaded on the head and hinder part 
of the neck with reddish : the upper mandible of 
the beak is dusky, and the under dirty white : the 
feet are grey-brown : the tail is very short, and 
entirely hidden by its upper coverts. It is a 
native of Brazil and Guiana, but is very rare. 
APEQUIA TINAMOU. 
(Tinamus obsoletus.) 
Ti. corpore supra Juscescente-nigro, rujoque leviter nehuloso, 
cervice colloque supra saturatioribus, partibus omnibus infe- 
rioribus rufis, lateribus nigro transversim striatis, cauda bre~ 
vissimd. 
Tinamou with the body above brownish black, slightly clouded 
with rufous ; the nape and neck above darkest ; all the under 
parts of the body rufous 3 the sides transversely striped with 
black 3 the tail very short. 
Tinamus obsoletus. Temm, Gall. Tnd. p. 75 . 
Tinamou Apequia. Temm, Fig. et Gall. 3. 588. 
From seven to nine inches in length : the pre- 
vailing colour of the feathers of the sides of the 
head and the throat is greyish red : the top of the 
head and the hinder part of the neck are dusky 
brown : the fore-part of the neck, the breast, the 
sides, and the belly, are fine rusty red : the feathers 
