TINAMUS. 451 



Our Veraguan specimen and one from the Escondido River are reddish in tint 

 and darker than the other birds included by Count Salvadori under the heading of 

 T. fuscipennis, and seem to us really more distinct from T. fuscipennis than the latter 

 is from T. robvstus. 



The type of T. salvini, from Carrillo in Costa Rica, appears at first sight to be a 

 fully-plumaged adult. The characters given are: the small size (wing 7-2 inches), the 

 rufous barring on the outer webs of the secondaries, and some other slight difierences 

 in the colour of the upper breast and abdomen. All these peculiarities, however, are 

 due to immaturity, as we have learnt from two adult specimens subsequently received 

 from the same locality, these having the wing measuring from 9-5 to 9-7 inches in 

 length. One of the latter birds has the breast uniform grey, and the other barred with 

 buif as in the type of T. salvini. 



In this pair the female is coarsely marked, the breast is of a browner shade, and the 

 abdomen is more fulvous, while the male is decidedly greyer below and has a whiter 

 abdomen. The black bars on the flanks and thighs, too, are more strongly marked in 

 the female than in the male. 



There are specimens from Northern Ecuador in the British Museum, collected by 

 Messrs. Miketta and Flemming, that we cannot separate from T. fuscipennis. 



Mr. Richmond says that this Tinamou is rather common in the forest on the 

 Escondido River : those shot were extremely fat, the flesh being white and 

 tender ^. 



3. Tinamus castaneiceps. 



Tinamus major (nee Gm.), Cass. Proc. Acad. Philad. 1860, p. 195 \ 



Tinamus robustus (nee Scl.),Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 477°; Sol. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 371'; 



Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 159 ' ; 1870, p. 218 '. 

 Tinamus rvficeps (pt.), Scl. & Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. pp. 153, 162°. 

 Tinamus castaneiceps, Salvad. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxvii. p. 507, t. 6 ^ ; Bangs, Auk, 1901, 



p. 356'. 



T. robusto similis, sed ubique saturatior, et notseo maculis nigris crebrius fasciatim notato ; pileo sordide 

 vinaceo-castaneo distinguendus. Long, tota circa 13'0, alas 8'8, caudae 2'8, culm. 1'35, tarsi 2-5. (Descr. 

 feminae typ. ex Volcan de Chiriqui. Mus. nostr.) 



Hob. Costa Rica, Pozo Azul ( Underwood) ; Panama, Bugaba, Chiriqui ^ 7, Santiago 

 de Veragua * [Arcf), Divala [Brown ^), Lion Hill {M'Leannan ^ ^ ^). — Colombia, 

 Rio Truando [Wood ^). 



Count Salvadori "^ has separated the Red-headed Tinamou of Panama from the 

 southern T. rufice'ps, on account of its darker chestnut crown, blackish ear-coverts, 

 and darker greyish-olive flanks. We have specimens from several places in Panama, 

 and Mr. Bangs has received seven examples, including both sexes, from Divala, 

 shot in November and December ^. It occurs also in Costa Rica, as we have received 



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