TINAMOU. 



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GENUS LXI I.— TINAMOU. 



1 Great Tinamou 



2 Tao 



3 Cinereous 



4 Undulated 



5 Barred-tail 



6 Nocturnal 



7 Macaco 



8 Obsolete 



9 Tataupa 

 10 Oariana 



11 Variegated 



12 Little 



13 Dwarf 



14 Rufescent 



15 Spotted 



JjILL long, blunt at the end; nostrils in the middle ; gape wide; 

 sides of the head and throat not well furnished with feathers. 



Tail very short, often hid in the feathers of the coverts, which 

 are unusually long. 



Hind toe short, for the most part useless in walking ; the claws 

 hollowed beneath. 



The general manners of all much like those of the first species. 



1.— GREAT TINAMOU. 



Tinamus Brasiliensis, Ind. Orn. ii. 633. 



Tetrao major, Gm. Lin. i. 767. 



Perdix Brasiliensis, Bris. i. 227. Id. 8vo. i. 63. 



Perdix major Brasiliensis, Bris. i. 927. Id. 8vo. i. 64. 



Macucagua, Raii, 53. Will. 116. t. 26. Id. Engl. 163. Klein, 18. 4. 



Jambu, Raii, 57. 4. Will. 119. Id. Engl. p. 167 §. iv ? 



Le Magoua, Buf. iv. 507. pi. 24. Id. Sonnin. xiv. p. 36. Enc. Orn. 224. pi. 89. t. 3. 



Temm. Pig. Sf Gall. 8vo. iii. 562. 

 Tinamou de Cayenne, PI. enl. 476 ? 

 Grosse Perdrix de la Guiane, Mem. sur Cay. ii. 269. 

 Great Partridge, Descr. Surin. ii. 188. 

 Great Tinamou, Gen. Syn. iv. 724. 



SIZE of a Fowl ; length eighteen inches. Bill black, one inch 

 and a quarter long, and blunt at the end, with a kind of furrow on 

 each side of the upper mandible, in the middle of which are the 

 nostrils ; top of the head deep rufous ; the general colour otherwise 



