tataupa

English

Etymology

Tupian.

Noun

tataupa (plural tataupas)

1. A South American tinamou (Crypturellus tataupa).
   • 1901, “United States of Brazil: A geographical sketch”, in Bureau of the American Republics, Washington, D.C., page 52:

     Psophia and palamedea species also aid in feeding these Indians, as likewise tataupas, ypacahas, yahamis, mbatuitis, and chloritos forms. They eat nearly every feathered creature, however, from a gull upward, deriving great advantages ...

   • 1921, The Avicultural Magazine, page 89:

     In the case of the Tataupas bred in 1904, no less than fourteen young birds were reared in the one season from a single female and two males. When male No. 1 commenced to incubate his batch of four pink eggs, the female was transferred ...

References

• “tataupa”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.