Tinamou: References & Edit History

Journal articles include Douglas A. Lancaster, “Biology of the Brushland Tinamou, Nothoprocta cinerascens,” Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 127:271–314 (1964), a study of species that inhabit the lowlands east of the Andes in northern Argentina, living in thorn woods—one of the few comprehensive life histories of the tinamous; W. Beebe, “The Variegated Tinamou, Crypturus variegatus variegatus (Gmeln),” Zoologica, 6:195–227 (1925); K.C. Parkes and G.A. Clark, Jr., “An Additional Character Linking Ratites and Tinamous, and an Interpretation of Their Monophyly,” Condor, 68:459–471 (1966), showing that ratites and tinamous share a conformation of the rhamphotheca not found in other birds; and A.K. Pearson and O.P. Pearson, “Natural History and Breeding Behaviour of the Tinamou Nothoprocta Ornata,” Auk, 72:113–127 (1955), the life history of a tinamou that lives in grass-covered hills of southern Peru at considerable heights in the Andes. See also Emmet R. Blake, Manual of Neotropical Birds, vol. 1 (1977), which includes descriptions, measurements, and distribution of the species.