Heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds.
1 The small tinamou has nothing that can be called a tail.
2 Ah, the tinamou , the bird with hidden wings and ferocious legs!
3 There is something remarkable in the great tinamou which I suspect has hitherto escaped notice.
4 At the close of day the great tinamou gives a loud, monotonous, plaintive whistle, and then immediately springs into the tree.
5 About eight years ago a gentleman in Essex introduced the rufous tinamou -a handsome game bird, nearly as large as a fowl-intohis estate.
6 We also went tinamou , or partridge, catching, and sometimes we had sham fights with lances, or long canes with which we supplied the others.
7 That so unpromising a subject as this large archaic tinamou should be able to maintain its existence in this country, even for a very few
8 "Do you remember the tinamou and an American somewhat younger than he is now who made things a little simpler for you?"
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