(CINEREOUS TINAMOU.)
+Nothura cinerascens+, _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii. p. 498 (Cordova,
Tucuman); _Salvin, Ibis_, 1880, p. 364 (Tucuman); _White, P. Z.
S._ 1883, p. 43 (Cordova). +Nothoprocta cinerascens+, _Cab. J. f.
O._ 1878, p. 198 (Cordova).
_Description._--Above cinereous; head and whole back banded with
black and pale brown and streaked with fulvous white: beneath pale
ashy white; breast and flanks banded and freckled with blackish and
cinereous; under wing coverts with black and fulvous cross bands;
wings blackish, outer webs spotted with fulvous; bill horn-colour,
lower mandible and feet yellowish: whole length 12·0 inches, wing
6·8, tail 2·6.
_Hab._ Northern Argentina.
This fine and distinct species was first obtained by Dr. Burmeister in
Cordova and in Tucuman, where Durnford also obtained specimens of it
during his last journey. It is larger than _N. pentlandi_, and has the
breast thickly covered by somewhat rounded light spots upon a cinereous
ground; these are mixed with black points and slight striations.