



Plate XLV. 



CRYPTURUS SALL.EL 



(SALLE'S TINAMOU). 



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Tinamus (Noihura) cinnamoinea 

 Tinamus cinnamomeus 

 Tinamus delattrii 

 Noihocercus sallwi 



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Tinamus sallcei 



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



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



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



Bp. Compt. Bend. xlii. p. 954. 



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



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



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



G. E. Gray, List of Galling (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 runs : subtus cinnamomeo-rufus : cervice 

 cinerea, gula nivea ; lateribus et crisso nigro variegatis : rostro corneo : mandibula et pedibus iiavis : long, tota 100, 

 ala3 6"2, tarsi 1*8, rostri a rictu 15. — Fcem. pileo toto fulvo transfasciato : pectore et gula nigro et fulvo distincte 

 transradiolatis : fasciis laterum distinctioribus. 



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



The first name certainly applicable to this Tinamou is that which we have adopted for its 

 designation, although it is probable that the two earlier terms quoted as doubtful 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 species was 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 Bio 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 southern 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 

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

 of the Indian hunters. A specimen obtained 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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