Measuremente.--See C. ¢. soconuscensis. No data for thie subsvecies. 
General Distribution.--Southeastern Fl Salvador, north and west in the Valley of the Lemos 
River. 
Distribution in Guatemaja.-—Arid Tropical Zone; is believed to occur in the Pacific coastal 
woodland of the extreme southeastern part of the Hepublic. 

Recordg.--None, as yet, for the Republic. It is recorded from localities in Salvador, and 
may occur in the Department of Jutiapa and perhaps farther west. 
Habits and Bunting.--Of the subspecies cinnamomeus in El Salvador, Dickey and Yan Rossem 
- wrote, "These small tinamous are better and more generally known than any other native game 
birds for, although nowhere abundant, they are distributed throughout the drid Lower Trop- 
ical Zone, and one or more birds are almost sure to be encountered during a morning's walk 
in wooded or semiwooded country. <A favorite habitat is well-grown, second growth woods 
along the lower foothills, in places where the foliage of the forest crown is not too dense 
to permit a fairly thick undergrowth with the resulting leaf mulch. In such a place during 
the dry season, by walking quietly along an old woods road or trail one can often encounter 
an occasional] tinamou in the act of working over the litter of dead leaves and mold. 
Uniess surprised too suddenly, it will attempt to steal away when the soft rustling of 
dead leaves enables one quickly to locate it. With the first raine the ground cover 
becomes a@ soggy mase which gives forth little or no sound, and tinamou hunting then becomes 
a very uncertain game. In the wet season, one's introduction to these birde is likely to 
be a feathered explosion which bursts with a roar from under foot, affording a brief 
glimpee of a brownish rocket that disappears behind the nearest foliage. 
"The laying season in Bl Salvador extends, judging from the dissection of females, 
from early April to early August, with the peak of production probably about halfway 
between these dates. Half-grown young were collected or seen several times in mid-August. 
They were solitary even at this early age. The young reach their full growth very slowly and 
are several months old before attaining their maximum weight." 
No nests were found during our eurvey, nor does Griscom (1932) report any nesting 
data for this species. Dickey and van Rossem (1938) wrote that in El Salvador "The natives 
say that the nests are on the ground and that four or five eggs are laid. A female taken on 
Los Esemiles, February 24, contained an egg which had just entered the oviduct, but which 
was not sufficiently developed to show any shell characters. <A female taken on Yolcan de San. 
Miguel, March 21,. had finished the incubation period... 
"A broken-up nest together with the remains of the broeding parent was found at 
Lake Olomega on August 1, 1925. The scratched-out hollow was under a pile of cut brush thrown 
carelesely in a well-traveled trail, and on several previous days we had jumped over the - 
pile without flushing the brooding bird or being aware of the hidden nest. On the morning 
in question the numerous scattered feathers which focused in the brush heap quickly dis- 
closed the site. In the hollow were the remains of several eggs, apparently four or five, 
with shells a highly glossed light purplish red. Whether the feathers of the brooding bird 
had belonged to a male or a female could not be determined.* (Dickey and van Rossen. ) 
The methods of hunting this tinamou are similar to those for the other species. 
Ite more open habitat gives the hunter better opportunities for shots than are usually 
afforded by tinamouvs of the rain forests. 
6. Crypturellus cinnamomeus goldmani (Nelson) 
Goldman's Tinamou 
Q ther Names 7“ 
Guatemalan: fperdiz, gallina del monte 
English: partridge 
Status.—~Goldman's tinamou is reported to be a fairly common resident within its range. 
Description.-~"Nearest to the nominate race (cinnamomeus), but much paler throughout, 
especially above and on the chest. The females are wel] distinguished from those of the 
allied races by the sharp contrast between the dark reddish pectoral areas and the very 
light (buffy white) posterior under parts." (Hellmayr and Conover, 1942:68.) 
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