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2— TAO TINAMOU. 



Tinamus Tao, Temm. Pig. Sf Gall. 8vo. iii. 569. 

 Le Mocoicocoe, Voy. d' Azara, iv. p. 154. 



LENGTH nineteen or twenty inches. Bill dusky ash-colour, 

 seventeen lines long; irides rufous; plumage in general above dusky 

 black, waved with ash-colour ; belly pale cinereous, waved with 

 paler ; lower belly rufous, undulated with black ; on each side of 

 the head, above the eyes, a streak of grey, passing to the middle of 

 the neck, and meeting behind ; the chin and throat whitish, varied 

 obscurely with dusky ; sides of the head blackish, descending by the 

 ears, on each side of the neck, as a band; quills dusky; tail feathers 

 dusky, with greyish white zigzags; legs lead-colour; shins rough 

 behind. 



Inhabits Para and Brazil, and there called Ynambu Tao; the 

 manners not mentioned. 



3.— CINEREOUS TINAMOU. 



Tinamus cinereus, Ind. Orn. ii. 633. 



Tetrao cinereus, Gm. Lin. i. 768. 



Le Tinamou cendre, Buf. iv. 510. Id. Sonnin. xiv. p. 40. Tab. Enc. Orn. 225. 



Temm. Pig. if Gall. 8vo. iii. p. 574. 

 Cinereous Tinamou, Gen. Si/n. iv. 726. 



LENGTH twelve inches. Bill one inch and a half, dusky, the 

 under mandible pale ; plumage in general deep chocolate brown ; 

 all the feathers of the wings, and the second quills spotted on the 

 outer margin with clay-colour ; the spots on the latter twelve or 

 fourteen in number ; great quills plain ; sides of the vent obsoletely 

 barred with clay-colour ; tail very short, and the coverts hang over 

 it beyond the end, so as to hide it ; legs pale, at the back part a 

 small toe with a claw, but placed too high to be useful. 



