128 BULLETIN 133, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



In the Anguete language the species is known as allat. 



Bangs and Penard ^° have indicated that the limpkin from south- 

 ern South America differs from that of northern localities in larger 

 size, a contention that is upheld by the skins available in the National 

 Museum. The male that I secured west of Puerto Pinasco has the 

 following measurements: Wing, 355; tail, 170; culmen, 127; tarsus, 

 144 mm. The wing measurements given by Bangs and Penard for 

 males of the southern form range from 341 to 343, so that this bird 

 is of maximum size. 



For a recent revision of the forms of Aramus the reader is re- 

 ferred to a paper by Peters (Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. : vol. 

 5, Jan. 30, 1925, pp. 141-144). 



Family CARIAMIDAE 



CARIAMA CRISTATA (Linnaeus) 



Palamadea cristata Linnaeus, Sy.st. Nat., ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 232. 

 (Brazil.) 



On September 13, 1920, near the ranch at Kilometer 80, west of 

 Puerto Pinasco, Paraguay, one of these strange birds ran out in 

 front of my horse as I rode up over the steep bank of a small stream, 

 but traveled on through the brush so rapidly that I did not get a 

 shot at it. 



CHUNGA BURMEISTERI (Hartlaub) 



Dicholophus hurmeisteri Haetlaub, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1860, p. 335. 

 (Tucuman and Catamarca, Argentina.) 



Near Tapia, Tucuman, from April 6 to 13, 1921, these birds were 

 fairly common, but were so wary that no specimens were secured. 

 Their high-pitched yelping calls were heard daily from low hilltops 

 where the forest was rather open, but as noiseless approach through 

 the thorny scrub was impossible the birds invariably took alarm and 

 ran away before I was within sight or range of them. Once or twice 

 I had a glimpse of one down some long opening in the brush, but had 

 no opportunity for closer approach. An immature Chuna was 

 examined that had been killed by a hunter who refused to part 

 with it. 



The generic name Ckunga, ordinarily attributed to Eeichenbach,^^ 

 has been assigned correctly by Waterhouse ^^ to Hartlaub.^^* There 

 is some question as to whether the date of publication of Reichen- 

 bach's paper was 1860 or 1861, but as Reichenbach on page 160 refers 



^0 Notes on a coUection of Surinam Birds, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 62, April, 

 1918, p. 42. 



"Vollst. Naturg. Tauben, 1861 (?), p. 159. 



"Ind. Gen. Avium, 1889, p. 45. 



" Proc. Zool. Soc. London, August, 1860, p. 335. 



