Chinamu puna [1] , or mountain steppe chinamu [2] ( lat. Tinamotis pentlandii ) - a species of bird family Tinamu ( Tinamidae ). A specific Latin name is given in honor of the Irish naturalist Joseph Barclay Pentland (1797-1873) [3] .
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The bird lives in alpine meadows at an altitude of 4000–4700 meters above sea level. The species is common in Peru, Bolivia, in the north of Chile and Argentina [4] .
Body length reaches 41 cm. Sexual dimorphism is not observed. Coloring is brown with white spots. The chest is gray, the belly is red. The head is white with red stripes. Rainbow and beak are brown. Legs are light gray, spur is absent [5] [6] .
Notes
- ↑ Koblik E.A. System of recess and subrecent paleognates // Ancient Skybirds (essays on phylogeny, systematics, biology, morphology and economic use) / ed. O. F. Chernova, E. A. Koblik. - M .: T-number of scientific publications of KMK, 2010. - P. 54. - 212 p. - ISBN 978-5-87317-635-9
- ↑ Boehme R. L. , Flint V. E. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names. Birds. Latin, Russian, English, German, French / Ed. ed. Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang., "RUSSO", 1994. - S. 13. - 2030 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00643-0 .
- ↑ Juan Carlos Chebez, Alejandro Mouchard, Lucas Rodríguez: Ornitonimia popular y científica de las aves argentinas II (Tinamiformes, Sphenisciformes y Podicipediformes). In: Nótulas Faunísticas - Segunda Serie, 65 (2011), S. 6.
- ↑ Clements, James (2007). The Clements Checklist of the Birds of the World (6 ed.). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-4501-9 .
- ↑ Emmet Reid Blake: Manual of Neotropical Birds. University of Chicago Press, 1977, ISBN 978-0-226-05641-8 , S. 76.
- ↑ Sharon R. Chester: A Wildlife Guide to Chile: Continental Chile, Chilean Antarctica, Easter Island, Juan Fernandez Archipelago. , Princeton University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-691-12976-1 , S. 130.