TATAUPA TINAMOU. 



415 



occiput, the nape, and the whole of the lower parts 

 of the neck, are deep red : the breast and the 

 sides are lead-colour, shaded with olive : the belly 

 is of an ashy yellow, varied with nearly obsolete 

 waves of a bright ash : the middle of the abdomen 

 is white, and its sides varied with dusky brown 

 and yellow : the tail-coverts are red, tipped with 

 reddish white, and undulated with black : the 

 back, the scapulars, and the lesser wing-coverts, 

 are deep reddish, each feather with a slight black 

 border towards the tip : the feathers of the rump 

 and tail-coverts are the same, broadly striped with 

 black : the greater wing-coverts and the outer 

 edge of the secondary feathers are varied with 

 black waves, and mottled with small spots of yel- 

 lowish: the tail-feathers are grey-blue, olive to- 

 wards their tip, with a spot of black and another 

 of yellow at a short distance from the tip : the 

 base of the lower mandible is white, the lest of 

 the be^k brown : the legs and toes greyish yellow. 



TATAUPA TINAMOU. 

 (Tinamus tataupa.) 



Ti. corpore supra nigrescente'rufoy vertice temporihus cerviceque 

 cinerascente nigris, gutture colloque allis, pedore, suhtus et 

 margine alarum cinerascente-plumheis^ plumis femorum nigris 

 albo marginatis. 



