Plate XLIV. 



TINAMUS ROBUSTUS. 



(EOBTJST TINAMOTJ), 



Tinamus major (?) . Moore, P.Z.S. 1859, p. 63. 



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

 Tinamus rohustus Sclater, P.Z.S. 1860, p. 253, et 1864, p. 371. 



Salv. Ibis, 1861, p. 355, et P.Z.S. 1867, p. 159. 



Parker, Trans. Z. S. v. p. 205 et seq. 



Lawrence, Ann. N. T. Lye. vii. p. 477. 



G-. E. Gray, List of Galling (1867), p. 97. 



Supra brunnescenti-olivaceus, nigro irregulariter transfasciatus : cervice immaculata; pileo nuchaque nigris, hac 

 ferrugineo punctata : subtus pallide olivacescenti-cinereus, gula alba ; lateribus capitis et gutture inferiore nigro et rufes- 

 cente variegatis ; ventre medio albicantiore, nigro obsolete transradiolato ; tibiis et tectricibus caudal inferioribus 

 nigricanteetfulvo variegatis; tectricibus alarum inferioribus fuliginosis ; remigibus priuiariis nigricantibus unicolori- 

 bus ; rectricibus plumb eo -nigris, apicibus olivacescenti-brunneis ; maxilla nigricanti-olivacea, mandibula albicante, pedibus 

 obscure olivaceis : long, tota 150, ala3 9-50, caudse 3'50, rostri a rictu 1*70, tarsi 260. 



Bab. in Mexico Meridionali {Salle) : Guatemala (Salvin) : Eep. Honcluratensi et Belize {Leyland) : Veragua 

 (Arce): Isth. Panama (McLeannan). 



Ohs. Similis T. majori, sed crassitie majore, pileo nigricante nee rufescente, et supra magis distincte maculatus. 



The typical Tinamous, for which Cabanis proposed the generic name Tradiypelmus, constitute 

 a very well marked section of this peculiar group, characterized by the elevation of the upper 

 edges. of the posterior tarsal scutes, which form a kind of rasp on the plantar surface. The 

 only species of this genus found in America north of the isthmus of Panama, as far as our 

 present knowledge extends, is the one herewith figured from a Guatemalan specimen in the 

 collection of Messrs. Salvin and Godman. 



When first met with this species was hardly distinguished from its southern representative 

 in the wood-region of Brazil, and was consequently referred to (with doubt) in our earlier articles 

 on the birds of Central America, as Tinamus major. In 1860, however, on the receipt of 

 excellent specimens collected by M. Salle in the State of Vera Cruz, Sclater came to the 

 conclusion that the bird was truly distinct, and proposed to call it rohustus, from its powerful 

 form. 



Like a large number of other Central American species of birds Tinamus rohustus extends 

 from Southern Mexico down to Panama, but does not appear to occur in any more southern 

 locality, — unless Mr. Cassin's Tinamus major, obtained by Mr. Wood on the Truando* be, 



* Proc. Acad. Sc. Phil. 1860, p. 195. 



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