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LITTLE TINAMOU. 
(jLieiitiiig only those that are well clothed with 
herbage, among which it conceals itself : its man- 
ners are very similar to those of the rest of the 
species of this genus, living a solitary life, and 
never frequenting the woods : it runs well, but 
flies with difficulty, never more than about twenty 
paces at a time : it will not bear confinement. 
LITTLE TINAMOU. 
-f- (Tinamus soui.) 
Ti. corpore supra Juscescente-rufo, nigro parum 7iebuloso, siihUts 
cinerascenle^rufo , vertice temporihus cerviceque nigris, coUo 
sublus cinerascente-olivaceo . 
Tinamou with the body above brownish red, slightly clouded 
with black j beneath greyish red ; the crown, temples, and 
nape, black j the neck beneath greyish olive. 
Tinamus Soui, Lath. hid. Orn. 2. 634. 4. — Temni. Gall. Ind. 
752. 
Tetrao Soui. Gmel. Spst. Nat. 1. 768 . 66. 
Le Soui, ou petit Tinamou. Bi/^. Ois. 4. 512. — Buff. PI. Enl. 
829 . — Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. 597 . 
Little Tinamou. Lath. Gen, Syn, 4. 727 . 
This is about nine inches in length : the top of 
the head, the cheeks, and the whole of the hinder 
part of the neck, are dusky grey : the throat is 
white : the fore-part of the neck, the breast, and 
the sides, are olive-brown, or browm varied with 
