The Key to Scientific Names
- NOTHOPROCTA
(Tinamidae; † Chilean Tinamou N. perdicaria) Gr. νοθος nothos spurious; πρωκτος prōktos tail, rear; "Genus V.— NOTHOPROCTA, GEN. NOV. VIII. 1 perdicaria (Kittl.) ex Chilia. *2 ornata (Gray) ex Bolivia. *3 pentlandi (Gray) ex Bolivia. 4 curvirostris, sp. nov. xxxi. ex Æquatoria. ... VIII.— NOTHOPROCTA, gen. nov. p. 153 (νοθος, spurius et πρωκτος, pars posterior corporis). Genus inter Rhynchotum et Nothuram medium, quoad scuta tarsi illi magis affine, sed digito postico brevi distinguendum. Typus, N. PERDICARIA, i.e. Crypturus perdicarius Kittlitz, ex Chilia." (P. Sclater & Salvin 1873); "Nothoprocta P. L. Sclater and Salvin, 1873, Nomencl. Avium Neotrop., pp. 153, 156. Type, by original designation, Crypturus perdicarius Kittlitz." (Blake in Peters, 1979, I, 2nd ed., p. 36).
Synon. Nocthura.
