225 ALLEN S NATURALISTS LIliRAUY. 



Huambo (3,700 ft.), equally so at Chirimoto, where 6,000 ft. 

 seems to be the furthest limit of its orographic distribution. 

 It usually keeps in pairs or in little flocks of two or three 

 pairs. Its affinity with P. sdateri shows itself not only in the 

 colouring, but also in the voice, in spite of the fact that the 

 note of our bird is very loud and disagreeable, somewhat re- 

 sembling the bray of an ass, hence its name of ' Gasnadoni.^ 

 Another of its ordinary notes, which I have heard several 

 times in the evening at Huambo, is also disagreeable and 

 strange ; I at first attributed it to the Steittor. In the day- 

 time it generally hides in the thickets and only comes out 

 at sunset. Besides the name mentioned above, it has another, 

 Puca-cunga (puca = red, cunga = neck). I have also several 

 times heard a resounding note, like '■ ti-toii-iy^^ repeated several 

 times over, which is more pleasant than the others." 



XL THE WHITE-HEADED PENELOPE. PENELOPE PILEATA. 



Penelope pikata, Wagler, Isis, 1830, p. 11 09; Des Murs, 

 Icon. Orn. pi. 23 (1845); J. E. Gray, Knowsl. Menag. 

 pi. 9. (1846) [incorrectly coloured] ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. 

 B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 500 (1893). 



Salpiza pikata, Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 1226. 



Adult Male and Female. — Distinguished from all the species 

 previously described by having well-marked black eyebrow-stripes 

 contrasting strongly with the pale sides of the crown. Crown 

 of head white with dark shafts and chestnut tips to the longer 

 feathers ; neck and under-parts dark chest mi tj rest of upper- 

 parts rich glossy olive-green ; most of the feathers of the 

 mantle, wing-coverts, fore-neck, and breast edged with white 

 on the sides; lower back and rump washed with dark reddish- 

 brown. 



Male:Toi2\ length, 31 inches: wing, 12-8; tail, 13-6; 

 tarsus, 3*4 ; middle toe and claw, 3*2. 



Female: Smaller; wing, 12-2 inches. 



