Tinamiformes
- tinamu a native name from the Galibi tribe in French Guiana
- Eudromia elegans (Martineta Tinamou)
- eu (Gr): a prefix meaning well or nicely
- dromos (Gr): running or escape
- elegans (L): neat or elegant
- martinete (Sp): a night heron, refering to the long slender crest that is similar to that of the night heron
- Tinamus guttatus (White-throated Tinamou)
- gutta (L): a drop of fluid or spot
- guttatus (L): spotted or speckled; refers to the inner flight fealthers which are a spotted pale buff
- Crypturellus boucardi (Slaty-breasted Tinamou)
- named after A. Boucard (1839-1904), a French ornithologist and author who was in Mexico and the Amazon in 1877
- kruptos (Gr): covered or hidden
- oura (Gr): the tail
- -ellus (L): suffix meaning ‘a little hidden tail’, referring to the feathers on the rump that usually hide the very short tail feathers
- Nothoprocta kalinowskii (Kalinowski’s Tinamou)
- named for J. Kalinowski (1860-c. 1942), a Polish naturalist who was living in Peru from 1889 and possibly until his death around 1942
- nothos (Gr): counterfeit
- proktos (Gr): hindpart or tail, likely referring to the small tail being covered by the body feathers and thus giving a deceptive appearance
Tinamidae – 46 species
