Plate XLV. 



CRTPTFRUS SALLJiL 



(SAILE'S TINAMOII). 



Tinamus (NotTiura) cinnamomea 

 Tinumus cintiamomeus 

 Tinamus delattrii 

 Nothocercus sallcei . 



Tinamus sallcsi 



Less. EeT. Zool. 1842, p. 210 (?). 



Scl. et Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 226. 



Bp. Compt. Eend. xsxviii. p. 663 (?). 



Bp. Compt. Eend. xlii. p. 954. 



Sclater, P.Z.S. 1856, p. 310. 



Scl. P.Z.S. 1859, pp. 369, 392. 



G. C. Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p. 312. 



G-. E. Gray, List of GallinsB (1867), p. 100. 



Nigricans, rufo undulatus : alarum vittis latioribus et flavescentioribus : cervice postica et dorso superiore fere 



puris : pileo nigricante ; nucha rufescente, nigro undulata : lateribus capitis rufis : subtus cinnamomeo-rufus : cervice 



■ cinerea, gula nivea ; lateribus et crisso nigro variegatis : rostro corneo : mandibula et pedibus flavis : long, tota lO'O, 



alee 6'2, tarsi I'S, rostri a rictu 1'5. — Fosm. pileo toto fulvo transfasciato : pectore et gula nigro et fulvo distincte 



transradiolatis : fasciis laterum distinctioribus. 



Sah. In Mexico meridionali (Salle) : Guatemala (Salvin) : Costa Eica (Arce). 



Tlie first name certainly applicable to this Tinamou is that wMch we have adopted for its 

 designation, although it is probable that the two earlier terms quoted as doubtftil in our 

 synonymy may have been based upon individuals of this species. But in each case the 

 description is too short and vague to be recognizable, and, the type-specimens not being available, 

 it is impossible to ascertain with certainty what s|)ecies was really intended. 



The original specimens of Salle's Tinamou were obtained by M. Auguste Salle, whose 

 name it bears, at Cordova in the State of Vera Cruz. Other examples were procured by De Oca 

 in the vicinity of Jalapa, and by Boucard at Playa Vicente on the Eio Tesechoacan, so that 

 it is probably not an uncommon bird in the eastern forests of Southern Mexico. In Guatemala 

 Salvin found this species tolerably abundant in the forests below Alotenango, on the western slope 

 of the Volcanoes of Agua and Fuego, but in no other part of the republic. Like the rest of 

 the family in Guatemala it is a strictly forest-bird, being known to the Creoles of that 

 country as the Gallina del Monte or " forest fowl." The flesh is as good as that of Tinamus 

 rohustiis^ of which we have already spoken, and renders the bird a favourite object of pursuit 

 of the Indian hunters. A specimen obtamed alive and kept some time in captivity was frequently 

 observed to rest upon its tarsi, as depicted in the figure of the preceding species. 



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