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SPOTTED TINAMOU. 



the beak, which is long, and strongly curved, is of 

 a brown-blue : the feet are pale red. 



This is the most beautiful of the genus : it is a 

 native of Paraguay, residing among thick herbage : 

 it feeds night and morning, when it utters its cry, 

 which is melancholy and feeble: the female deposits 

 seven eggs, of a fine brilliant violet hue, in a nest, 

 or rather a hollow, situated beneath tufts of grass : 

 the young reside within a short distance of each 

 other, and not in families. 



SPOTTED TINAMOU. 

 (Tinamus maculosus.) 



Ti. corpore supra Juscescente-rufo , plumis rfiaculis nigris cori' 

 spersis et rtifescente-albo Jimhriatis, remigibus secundariis trans- 

 versim rufo nigroque striatis, gutture albo, collo pectoreque 

 maculis longitudinaHbus nigris. 



Tinamou with the body above brownish red ; the feathers 

 sprinkled with black spots, and edged with reddish white the 

 secondary quills striped transversely with red and black j the 

 throat white j the neck and breast with longitudinal black 

 spots. 



Tinamus maculosws. Temm. Gall, Ind. p. 748. 

 Tinamou Ynambui. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. p. 551^ 



Length ten inches : the feathers on the top of 

 the head are deep brown, marked with white, and 

 bordered with reddish : the throat is white : the 



