6. PENELOPE. 495 



d, e. Ad. sk. Quonga, Brit. Guiana, Sept.- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(JI. Whitdy). 

 f,<j- c5' 5 ad. sit. Catnaousa, lirit. Guiana, .Vpril, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



July (H. W.). 

 /j. S ad. sk. Bartica Grove, Brit. Guiana, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



April {H. W.). 

 %. 2 ad. sk. Dcmerara, May. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



5. Penelope marail. 



? Faisan verdatre de Cayenne, 1/ Anient. PL Enl. ii. pi. 39 [no. 338]. 



Marail, Buf. Hist. Nat. Ois. ii. p. 390 (1771) [Cayenne]. 



Marail Turkey, Lafli. Gen. Si/n. ii. pt. ii. p. 082 (1783). 



? Penelope jacupema. Men: Beyti: Vo(j. pt. ii. p. 42, pi. xi. (1786) ; 



id. Av. Icone.i e.t Descr. ii. p. 39 (1786). 

 Penelope marail *, Gm. S. N.'i. pt. ii. p. 734 (1788); Bonn. Tabl. 



Encyd. Meth. i. p. 171, pi. 84. fijr. 4 (1791) ; Temm. Pig. et Grill, iii. 



pp. 50, 692 (1815) ; Steph. in S/iaic's Gen. Zoo/, xi. p. 183 (1819); 



Wa(jl. Isis, 1830, p. 1110 [Guiana, CaA'enne] ; Grai/, Lut Gallin<e 



Brit. Mus. p. 6 (1867) ; id. Iland-l. B. ii. p. 250 (1870). 

 Salpiza marail, M^agi. Isi.'i, 1832, p. 1226. 

 Salpiza jacucaca, Gray, List of B. pt. iii. Gall. p. 19 (1844) 



[spec. b~\. 

 Penelope purpurascens, J. E. Gray {nee Wayl.), Knoivsl. Menag. ii. 



pi. .xi. (1846). 



Adult male and female. General colour of plumage very dark bluish 

 green, much darker than that of any other species of the genus ; top 

 of the head black, with a slight greenish gloss ; some of the feathers 

 edged on the sides with grey ; the feathers on the forehead, along 

 the sides of the crown, and on the cheeks dark grey ; those on the 

 back of the neck and mantle indistinctly margined on the sides 

 with grey ; outer half of primaries pale brown, contrasting strongly 

 with the secondaries, and differing in colour from those of any other 

 species of Penelope ; front of neck and chest margined on the sides 

 with white ; rest of underparts brown, glossed with dark green on 

 the thighs and under tail-coverts ; outer tail-feathers 1)lack, glossed 

 with purple. Total length 32'5 inches, wing 13-5, tail 13"7, 

 tarsus 3-1, middle toe and claw 3. 



Hub. British Guiana and Cayenne. 



a, b. 2 ad. sk. Brit. Guiana, March. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Brit. Guiana. Roval Geogiaphical 



See. [P.l 



d, e. cJ $ ad. sk. Takutu R., Brit. Guiana, March Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(//. Wkitely). 

 f. Skeleton. Guiana. Purchased. 



• It is exceedingly doubtful whether Gmelin's name is really applicable to 

 this species, as it is founded on DWubenton's figure (no. 338), wliicb is repre- 

 sented as having the belly chestnut. Tins ilgure, were it not for the red skin 

 surrounding the eye and the fact that the bird is said to have come from 

 Oayeuue, might pass fairly well for " Meleagris cristata " of Linnseus. 



