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TAO TINAMOU. 

 (Tinamus Tao.) 



Ti, corpore supra nigrescente, cinereo undulato, superciliis slricl 

 cervicali genis colloque superiore maculis nigris et albis con- 

 spersisj ventre cinerascente, dilutiore undulato, abdomine rufo 

 nigro undulato, 



Tinamou with the body above dusky, undulated with grey j the 

 supercilia, cervical stria, the cheeks, and upper part of the 

 nedi, sprinkled with black and white spots ; the belly greyish, 

 undulated with paler 5 the abdomen rufous, undulated with 

 black. 



Tinamus Tao. Temm, 'Gall. Ind. p, f4g, 

 Tinamou Tao. Temm, Pig. et Gall, 3.p, 56q. 



The total length of this species is twenty inches : 

 its head is dusky, with grey spots: the sides of 

 the forehead and a dash passing over the eyes, to 

 the middle of the posterior part of the neck, where 

 the dash of the opposite side forms an union ; 

 these, and also the cheeks, the under part of the 

 throat, and the upper part of the base of the neck, 

 as well as its sides, are varied with black and 

 white : the chin and the throat are white, ob- 

 scurely varied with dusky : the sides of the head 

 are dusky, and a dash of the same covers the ears, 

 and descends in a band towards the under part of 

 the neck, separating the variegated superciliary 

 line from the rest of the neck ; the lower part of 

 which and the breast are grey, finely dotted with 

 dusky; the whole of the back, the rump, and the 



