We also went tinamou, or partridge, catching, and sometimes we had sham fights with lances, or long canes with which we supplied the others.
"Far Away and Long Ago"
W. H. Hudson
About the same hour, and sometimes even at midnight, you hear two species of maam, or tinamou, send forth their long and plaintive whistle from the depth of the forest.
"Wanderings in South America"
Charles Waterton
Outdoors he had deposited the coarser game intended for the mess, consisting, today, of a small deer, a tinamou or maam and two agoutis.
"Jungle Peace"
William Beebe