- Nothura maculosa
File:Spotted Nothura.jpg
Photo by arthurgrosset
Identification
Brown above streaked buff, buff below streaked with chestnut and black on breast, flanks barred. Crown black streaked buff and throat white.
Length 23cm.
Distribution
Central and southern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina except the far south. Resident.
Taxonomy
Race cearensis occurs in southern Ceara, Brazil, major in eastern Brazil, paludivaga in central Paraguay and north-central Argentina, maculosa from south-east Brazil to north-east Argentina, pallida in north-west Argentina, annectens in eastern Argentina, submontana in south-west Argentina and nigroguttata in southern Argentina.
Habitat
Scrub and open woodland.
