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In the birds from Brazil, Amazonia, Ecuador, and Colombia, from all of which 

 countries we have specimens before us, the general colour is browner, and less rufous 

 on the under surface ; the flank-feathers which overhang the tail are brown or rufous- 

 brown, but never so chestnut as in C. meserythrus or C. soui ; the head is light ashy- 

 brown, and the front of the neck is brownish and lighter than in C. meserythrus. 



The third form, C. meserythrus, which is Central-American, is again different, being 

 very rufous below, and having the flank-feathers overhanging the tail deep chestnut, 

 in this character resembling C. soui, but differing in the ashy-brown tint of the chest. 

 Birds from Chiriqui are very dark in colour, and Mr. Bangs describes his series from 

 Divala as extreme examples of this race, with dark greyish throat and a conspicuous 

 dark band across the breast ^^. 



2. Crypturus cinnamomeus. 



Tinamus {Nothura) cinnamomea. Less. Rev. Zool. 1842, p. 210 \ 



Tinamus cinnamomeus, Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p, 226 '. 



Crypturus cinnamomeus, Salvad. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxvii. p. 541 ' ; Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. 



Nat. Hist. X. p. 36 *. 

 Tinamus delattrii, Bp. C. R. xxxviii. p. 663°. 

 Nothocercus sallai, Bp. C. R. xlii. p. 881 ° j Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 310 ' ; Lawr. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 



no. 4, p. 45 °, 

 Tinamus sallm, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, pp. 369', 392 "; Salv. Ibis, 1866, p. 206" ; Sumichr. La Nat. 



V. p. 229 ". 

 Crypturus sallcsi, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 141 " ; v. Frantz. J. f . Orn. 1869, p. 374 " ; Nutting, 



Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 409"; Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 180 '^ 



Supra brunneus, regulariter nigro trausfasciatus ; scapularibus, tectricibus alarum, secundariis intimis, supra- 

 caudalibus et rectricibus albido vel ochracescenti-fulvo fasciatis efc terminatis, tectricibus alarum majoribus 

 et interioribus cum secundariis intimis nigro irroratis et subterminalifcer nigro notatis ; interscapulio et 

 colli lateribus sordide cinerasoentibus ; pileo antico sordide schistaceo ; supercilio, facie lateral! et cello 

 postico sordide vinaceo-castaneis ; gula alba ; gutture imo et praepectore summo sordide schistaceis ; 

 prajpectore imo et pectore cervinis, abdomine albicantiore ; corporis lateribus et tibiis paUide cervinis 

 nigro late transfasciatis ; subcaudalibus pallida arenario-fulvis, basaliter nigro vermiculatis ; subalaribus 

 et alis intus cinerasoentibus : maxilla brunnescente, mandibula pallidiore ; pedibus rubris ; iride eoryllina. 

 Long, tota circa 11*5, alae 6-3, caudae 1"6, culm. 1-1, tarsi 1-8. (Descr. maris adulti ex Volcan de Agua. 

 Mus. nostr.) 



$ . Supra ubique nigro trausfasciatus ; pileo et coUo postico et lateral! sordide vinaceo-castaneis nigro fasciatis ; 

 interscapulio sordidiore, minus distincte transfasciato ; facie lateral! vinaceo-castaneo concolore ; gnla 

 alba ; corpora reliquo subtus cinnamomeo-rufo, abdomine et tibiis posticis arenariis ; gutture imo et 

 prajpeotore summo et laterali obscurioribus, nigro transfasciatis ; pectoris plumis rufo indistincte mar- 

 ginatis ; corporis lateribus late nigro transfasciatis ; subcaudalibus rufescente et nigro fasciatis ; alis intus 

 cineraoeis. Long, tota circa 11-0, alse 6-4, caudae 1-6, culm. 1-3, tarsi 1-85. (Descr. femiuEe adultae ex 

 Costa Grande. Mus. nostr.) 



Ilab. Mexico, Vera Cruz, Cordova {Salle ^ 7), Playa Vicente {Boucard 1°), Atoyao 

 {H. H. Smith^), Jalapa {de Oca^, Ferrari-Perez^^, Chapman^), Plan del Rio 

 {Ferrari-Perez ^), Coatepec {Trvjillo ^), Potrero, Omealca, Santa Efigenia *, 

 Tapanatepec, Cacoprieto, Tonala {Sumichrast ^^ ; Guatemal.*, Chisec {0. SJ^), 



