220 TINAMOU. 



12— LITTLE TINAMOU. 



Tetrao Soui, hid. Om.W. 634. Gm. Lin.\. 768. 



Le Soui, Petit Tinamou, Buf. iv. 512. Id. Sonnin. xiv. 44. pi. 130. f. 1. PL enl. 829. 



Encyc. Orn. 225. pi. 90. f. 2. Tern. Pig. $ Gall. 8vo. iii. 597. 

 Little Tinamou, Gen. Syn. iv. 727. 



LENGTH nine inches, or little more. Bill dusky; head deep 

 olive-brown, or dusky ; upper parts of the body tine reddish brown ; 

 chin white ; neck before olive-brown ; under parts fine yellowish 

 clay-colour, inclining to rufous; sides over the thighs crossed with 

 brown streaks ; the wing coverts faintly tipped with yellowish ; tail 

 short, hid in the coverts; legs yellowish ; instead of a hiud toe, only 

 a short yellowish spur; and the shins are smooth behind. 



Inhabits Guiana and parts adjacent, where the French call it 

 Perdrix cul rond, from the shortness of its tail ; it ditfers from the 

 others, as it builds in the low forks of trees; the nest is of an hemi- 

 spherical shape, about six inches broad, and five deep, composed of 

 leaves, the eggs from three to six in number, nearly round, and the 

 size of those of a Pigeon. The flesh is much esteemed. 



One of these birds, in the collection of Mr. Mc. Leay, was brought 

 from Berbice, under the name of Siweriri. 



13— DWARF TINAMOU. 



Tinamus nanus, Tinamou Carape, Temm. Pig. Sf Gall. 8vo. iii. 600. 

 Ynambu Carape, Voy. d'Azara, iv. 148. No. 328. 



LENGTH six inches, extent nine inches and a half. Bill brown, 

 beneath white ; plumage above, the neck, and body, rufous, varied 

 with white and black ; beneath whitish ; on the breast, spotted with 

 dusky, and fasciated on the sides with the same ; the nape and 

 temples pale rufous, spotted with black ; tail coverts very long, 

 covering and hiding the tail ; legs olive-colour, shins smooth behind. 



