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CINEREOUS TINAMOU. 



breast is grey-rufous, varied with deeper : the belly 

 is the Same, but more bright : the abdomen and the 

 thighs are dirty white, waved with ferruginous, 

 except the middle of the abdomen, which is of an 

 uniform colour : the coverts concealing the tail are 

 white-rufous, irregularly barred with black and fer- 

 ruginous : the quills are brownish : the secondaries 

 and the greater wing-coverts are grey-brown,varied 

 with transverse zigzag black lines : the tail-feathers 

 are brown at their base, and striped with faint 

 zigzag lines of black at their tip : the under wing- 

 coverts are brownish : the irides are reddish brown. 

 Inhabits Brazil." 



CINEREOUS TINAMOU. 



(Tinamus cinereus.) 



Ti. corpore supra et suhtus fuscescente-cinereOy vertice colloque 

 subriifis. 



Tinamou with the body aboye and beneath fuscous brown j the 



crown and neck subrufous. 

 Tinamus cinereus. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 633. 2. — Temm, Gall. 



Ind. 750. 



Tetrao cinereus. Gmel. Syst. Nat, J . 768. 64. 

 Tinamou cendre. Biiffl Ois, 4. 510. — Temm. Pig, et GalL 3. 

 574. 



Cinereous Tinamou. Lath, Gen. Syn.A. 726. 2. 



The Cinereous Tinamou is one of the number 

 described by Latham: it is about one foot in 



