222 TINAMOU. 



15— SPOTTED TINAMOU. 



Tinamus maculosus, Tinamou Ynambui, Temm. Pig. Sf Gall. 8vo. iii. p. 557. 



LENGTH about ten inches. Bill brown, beneath whitish ; irides 

 bright red ; plumage in general on the upper parts rufous brown, 

 more or less varied and spotted with rufous white, and in some parts 

 with dusky ; throat and under parts rufous white, on the neck before 

 the feathers dashed with black down the middle ; secondary quills 

 barred rufous and black ; prime ones the same, but only on the outer 

 webs ; legs pale brown ; the tail feathers appear to be wanting in 

 this, as well as the last species. 



Inhabits Monte Video, Buenos Ayres, and other parts of South 

 America, but not observed at Guiana. The Spaniards know it under 

 the name of a Small Partridge, or Quail ; but it is strictly neither. 

 It has a loud and sharp cry, far from agreeable ; but may be heard 

 far off ; it lays six or eight dull violet-coloured eggs, and forms the 

 nest very like the former : the flesh is not much esteemed : they are 

 often taken by means of a noose at the end of a pole, or may be shot 

 like other birds. 



