

Southwards of Guatemala this Tinamou was met with in Western Honduras by 

 Mr. G. C. Taylor, during his journey across the proposed Interoceanic Kailway-route, and at 

 Bebedero, on the Gulf of Nicoya, by Arce. From the latter collector we have received two 

 specimens, which agree sufficiently well with northern examples. 



The front figure of Plate XLV. represents what we consider to be an adult male of this 

 species. It is taken from a specimen (marked male) procured near Vera Cruz, in November, 

 1864, by M. Boucard. The figure in the back-ground is that of one of Salvin' s Guatemalan 

 specimens, which we believe to be a female, shot in the forests of the Pacific coast region, near 

 the hacienda " El Zapote." Both these specimens are now in the collection of Messrs. Salvin 

 and Godman. As pointed out in the characters above-given, the female differs from the male 

 in the greater development of the transverse markings, which in this sex cover the top of 

 the head, the front of the breast, and the whole of the sides of the body below. In some of the 

 adult males the bars on the breast and sides are almost entirely evanescent, even more so than 

 is represented in our figure. 



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