f^'t /c'> Vol. 81, pp. 485-490 30 December 1968 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON PENTLAND'S TINAMOU IN ARGENTINA (AVES: TINAMIDAE) By Richard C. Banks and Wayne H. Bohl Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife; U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C., and Foreign Game Investigation Program, Utah State University, Logan, Utah Field work in Argentina in 1965 and 1966 by personnel of the Foreign Game Investigation Program, of the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, had as one of its results the accumula-tion of a collection of nearly 300 specimens of tinamous, which have been deposited in the U.S. National Museum. Among these was a series of 15 Pentland's Tinamou, Notho-procta pentlandii (Gray), from the provinces of Mendoza, San Luis, and Cordoba, at or near the southern end of the range of the species (Hellmayr and Conover, 1942; OLrog, 1963). Comparison of these southern specimens with others from the more northerly provinces of Catamarca, Tucuman, and Salta and from Bolivia revealed that two distinct southern populations were represented — a previously undescribed one in Mendoza and one in the Sierras de San Luis and Cordoba. There are thus three subspecies in Argentina, as follows. Nothoprocta pentlandii pentlandii (Gray) Range: From the Bolivian departments of Chuquisaca, Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, and La Paz south along the Andean foothills of western Argentina to southern Catamarca. Comments: Comparison of this subspecies with others is made below. This is the only subspecies currently listed as occurring in Argentina by Olrog (1963), who did not recognize the next form. The type locality is in the Bolivian Andes. Nothoprocta pentlandii doeringi Cabanis Range: Sierras de San Luis and Cordoba, central Argentina. Diagnosis: Similar to the northerly nominate race in size (Table 1) 48— Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., Vol. 81, 1968 (485)
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