13. CARIAMA. 43 



Microdactylus marcgravii, Geoffr. Ann. du Mus. xiii. p. 370, pi. xxvi. 



(1809). 

 Dicholophus cristatus, Illiger, Prodr. p. 253 (1811) ; Tetnm. PI. Col. 



i. pi. 237 (1823) ; Max. Abbild. Nature/. Bras. Vog. pi. 4(c. 1825) ; 



id. Beitr. iv. pt. 2, p. 570 (1833) ; Btirm. Th. Bras. iii. p. 401 



(1856) ; Peh. Orii. Bras. pp. 299, 455 (1871). 

 Cariama saui'opliaga, Tieill. et Oiid. Gal. Ois. ii. p. 148, pi. cclix. 



(1834). 

 Cariama cristata. Gray, Cat. Grallee, p. 73 (1844) ; id. Hand-l. B. iii. 



p. 23 (1871) ; Scl. ^ Salv. Nommcl. Av. Neotr. p. 141 (1873). 

 Sariama cristata, B^j. Consp. ii. p. 103 (1857). 



Adult. Above sandy brown, minutely and indistinctly vermicu- 

 lated with fulvous ; wing-coverts paler and more ashy grey, some- 

 what tinged here and there with rufous, and vermiculated with 

 numerous cross lines of ashy brown ; quills dark brown, shaded 

 externally with ashy grey, the secondaries also washed with rufous 

 and vermiculated on the outer web with ashy brown, the inner web 

 tipped and crossed with four or five bars of butfy white, slightly 

 mottled with brown ; lower back and rump dull brown, the outer 

 upper tail-coverts ashy fulvous, vermiculated with brown ; tail 

 black, the two centre feathers browner, all the rest broadly tipped 

 with white, and having buffy white bases mottled with dark brown ; 

 head and neck ashy fulvous, numerously vermiculated with blackish 

 cross lines and tinged with rufous ; all the shaft-feathers whitish 

 along the shafts, causing a distinctly streaked appearance ; the head 

 ornamented with a tuft of erect plumes on the forehead, with a full 

 and pendent crest hanging down the hinder neck ; lores whitish ; 

 under surface of body sandy buff, the vermiculations small, and the 

 light central streaks down each feather very apparent on the throat 

 and breast ; the streaks much wider on the flanks and thighs, 

 spreading over nearly the whole feather, which has only a few brown 

 vermiculations on the margin ; lower abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 uniform fulvous ; under wing-coverts ashy, with narrow brown ver- 

 miculations, the greater ones fulvous, with broad transverse bars of 

 brown ; bill cinnabar-red, paler in the young bird ; lores greyish 

 flesh-colour ; the bare orbit bluish ; iris dark yellow, paler in the old 

 bird. Total length 36 inches, culmen 2-6, wing 14*8, tail 13, 

 tarsus 7*5. 



Ilab. Campos of Brazil and Northern Paraguay. 



a. Ad. St. Brazil. 



h A n ^t" Tiri 7il 



c. Ad.' St.* " Deformed [cf. GUnther, Ann.N.H.(4)x. p. 67 (1872)]. 



d. Skeleton. Mr. Tyler [P.]. 



2. Cariama burmeisteri. 



Dicholophus burmeisteri, Ilartl. P. Z. S. 1800, p. 335; Sund. Av. Tent. 



p. Ill (1873). 

 Chimga burmeisteri, Reich. Nuturg. Tauhen, p. 160 (1860) ; Scl. 



P. Z. S. 1870, p. 666, pi. xxxvi. ; Scl. S,- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. 



p. 141 (1873). 

 Chunnia burmeisteri, Bttrm. La-Plata Peis. ii. p. 508 (1861). 

 Cariama burmeisteri, Grai/, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 23 (1871). 



