498 CRACID^E. 



browD, or the edges of the feathers are indistinctly margined with 

 brownish; the upper parts .are browner and less glossed with 

 green ; and the breast and underparts are more distinctly mottled 

 with pale rufous and dnsky. 



Huh. Uruguay, Brazil, Rio, Sao Paulo, Paraguay, N. Argentine, 

 Bolivia. 



a. (5ad.sk. Uruguay, Jan. Alan Peel, Esq. [C.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Brazil. Purchased of M. Ver- 



reaux. 



c. cj vix ad. sk. Brazil. M. Claussen [P.]. 



(Type of P. iiigricapilla, Gray .J 



d. Ad sk. Rio, Brazil. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



e. Ad.sk. Sao Paulo, Brazil (A"«^ie;'e/-). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



f. Vix ad. sk. Paraguay {Faye). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 £r. Ad. sk. Bdivia. T. C. Bridges, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of P. hridgesi, Gray.) 



0. Penelope cristata. 



The Quan or Guan, Echuards, Nat. Hist. B. i. p. 13, pi. 13 (1743). 



Gallopavo brasiliensis, Briss. Orn. i. p. 162 (17G0). 



Meleagris cristata, Linn. S. N. i. p. 269 (1766). 



Penelope cristata, 6^m. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 733 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. 

 ii. p. 619 (1790) ; Temm. Pig. et Gall. pp. 46, 691 (1815) ; Steph. 

 in Shaw's Gen. Zool. x\. p. 178 (1819) ; Wagl. Ms, 1830, p. 1110 ; 

 Bennett, Gard. Sf Menag. Z. S. ii. p. 131 (1831) ; Jard. Contr. Orn. 

 1848, p. 27, pi. I structure] ; Burmeister, Syst. Uebers. iii. p. 339 

 (1856); Sclat. ^ Salvin, P. Z. 8. 1870, p. 525, 1879, p. 544 

 [Antioquia] ; Berlepsch i^- Tacz. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 576 [Chimbo, 

 W. Ecuador] ; Salmi, Ibis, 1886, p. 175 ; W. L. Sclater, Ibis, 

 1887, p. 317 [Corentyn and Orinoco Rivers]; Richmond, P. U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 523 (1893) [Escondido R., Nicaragua]. 



Salpiza cristata, Wagl. Isis, 1832, p. 1226 ; Ch-ag, List of B. pt. iii. 

 Gall. p. 19 (1844). 



Penelope brasibensis, Bonap. C. R. xlii. p. 877 (1856). 



Penelope jacuaca, Gi-ay, List of Gallince Brit. Mus. p. 6 (1867) ; 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1869, p. 317 [Costa Rica, Panama]. 



Penelope purpurascens, Lawr. Aiin. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 12 [U.S. 

 Colombia]; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 42 [Costa Rica]. 



Adult male and female. General colour of upper parts olive glossed 

 with coppery green ; top of the head dark brown slightly glossed 

 with green ; unlike P. boliviana, the white margins on the feathers 

 of the mantle are almost if not quite absent ; lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts dull chestnut with a slight greenish gloss ; the 

 scapulars, secondaries, and centre tail-feathers with a coppery gloss ; 

 chest and breast dull olive, each feather margined with white on 

 the sides ; belly dull chestnut ; thighs olive-brown ; under tail- 

 coverts the same, fringed with rufous. Iris carmine ; naked skin 

 of throat dull carmine ; tarsi and feet coral-red. 



In yoxmger examples the tail-feathers are washed with rufous and 

 mottled with dusky on the margins of the webs. 



]\[ale. Total length 35 inches, wing 14-5, tail 14*5, tarsus 3-7, 

 middle toe and claw 3*4. 



