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Genus LII. T I N A M O U. 



N° i. Great T. 

 2. Cinereous T. 



N° 3. Variegated T. 

 4. Little T. 



BILL long, blunt at the end j noftrils placed in the middle. 

 Gape wide. 

 Sides of the head, and throat, not well furniihed with feathers. 

 Tail very fhort, often hid by the upper coverts. 

 Hind toe ihort, and ufelefs in walking j claws hollowed be- 

 neath* 



The manners of the whole genus much like thofe of the firft- 

 defcribed. 



The female biggefl in all the known fpecies* 



i . Le Perdrix du Brefil, Brif. orn. i. p. 227. 4. 



GREAT T. La Grofie Perdrix du Brefil, 5. 



Le Magoua, Buf. cif.'iv. p. 507. pi. 24. 

 Tinamou de Cayenne, Pi. enl. 476. 



Macucagua, Raii Sjn. p. 53, N° 9. — Will. orn. p. 163. pi. z&. 

 Groffe Perdrix de la Guiane, Mem. Cay. vol. ii. p. 269. 

 Great Partridge, Defer. Sarin, ii. p. 18 3. 



Lev.. Muf. 



DiscRipTioN. O I ZE of a Fowl : length eighteen inches. Bill one inch and: 



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



on each fide of the upper mandible, in the middle of which the 



noftrils 



