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throat rufous white ; cheeks, hindhead, nape, and lower part of the 

 neck deep rufous ; breast and sides plumbeous, with an olive tinge ; 

 belly yellowish ash, indistinctly waved with pale ash ; belly white; 

 tail coverts rufous, varied with streaks of black, and tipped with 

 rufous white ; tail bluish ash, inclining to olive near the end, with a 

 large spot of black, and a smaller yellowish one near the tips of the 

 feathers; legs cinereous yellow, smooth behind. 



Inhabits Brazil, by the name of Ynambu pinime; several killed 

 in the province of Para. Manners not mentioned. 



11. —VARIEGATED TINAMOU.— Pl. cxxvii. 



Tinamus variegatus, Ind. Orn. ii. 634. 



Tetrao variegatus, Gin. Lin. i. 768. Nat. Misc. pl. 733. 



Tinamou varie, Buf. iv. 411. Id. Sonnin.-axy. p. 42. PI. enl. 828. Mem. Cay. ii. 272. 



L'Ynambu raye, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 331 ? Temm. Pig. Sf Gall. 8vo. iii. 576. 



Variegated Titmou, Gen. Syn. iv. 726. pl. 65. 



LENGTH eleven inches. Bill one inch and a quarter long, 

 dusky; under mandible yellowish ; head and neck behind black, the 

 rest of the upper parts transversely barred with orange brown, and 

 black; about the eye very pale, and not well feathered ; throat and 

 middle of the belly white ; the neck, breast, and upper parts of the 

 belly, rufous; sides and thighs barred with brown, rufous, and white; 

 quills plain brown ; the wings, when folded up, reach nearly to the 

 end of the tail ; legs dusky. 



Inhabits Guiana, but is less common than the first species. The 

 female lays ten or twelve eggs, of a beautiful lilac-colour, and a 

 trifle less than those of a Pheasant. At Brazil it is named Chororao, 

 and its flesh in great repute, as being well flavoured. 



M. Bajon says, that this species does not roost on trees ; and 

 differs, in the young birds remaining a longer time with the mother. 

 If this be the Ynambu varie of Azara, of which there is doubt, it is 

 said to lay four violet eggs. 



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