FAMILY CRACIDAE 299 



tips; wing quills chaetura drab; throat whitish, with the feathers 

 tipped indistinctly with pale neutral gray, producing a faintly 

 mottled appearance ; breast and abdomen dull white ; sides, flanks, and 

 tibia dull sayal brown, with the down mottled somewhat with neutral 

 gray at the base ; tail feathers chaetura drab, tipped with sayal brown, 

 barred indistinctly with black. 



Fig. 51.— Crested guan, pava cimba, Penelope purpurascens aequat or talis. 



Adult, iris dark red; cere, bare skin of side of head, and chin 

 slaty black ; bare throat somewhat dull light red ; bill black ; front of 

 tarsus, and top of toes dull dark red ; back of tarsus, and claws black. 



Measurements. — Males (5 from Panama), wing 350-368 (356), 

 tail 320-365 (344), culmen from cere 33.5-35.5 (34.8), tarsus 87.0- 

 91.0 (89.0) mm. 



Females (5 from Panama), wing 333-349 (342), tail 330-348 

 (341), culmen from cere 32.0-36.5 (33.9), tarsus 84.0-90.8 (85.7) 

 mm. 



Resident in forested areas in the tropical and lower subtropical 

 zones ; absent only from the open savannas of the Pacific slope, and 



