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which is about equal to the tenth, and the sixth is shgiuly the 

 longest] 



Tarsus longer than the middle toe and claw. 



Only one species is known. 



I. THE BLACK TENELOPE. PENELOPINA NIGRA. 



Fejiclope fiiger, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 246, pi. xxix. 

 Penelopina ?iigm, Reichenb. Tauben, p. 152 (1862); Ogilvie- 

 Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 503 (1893). 



Adult Male. — The whole plumage black glossed with dark 

 green or bluish-green ; the under-parts, especially the belly, 

 browner and less strongly glossed. Naked space round eye 

 purple ; throat, fore-part of neck, and large wattle red. Bill, 

 legs, and feet red. Total length, 25 inches ; wing 9-3 ; tail, 

 II ; tarsus, 2*8-3 ; middle toe and claw, 2-6-2-8. 



Adult Female. — -May be distinguished by having the feathers 

 of the crown and back of the neck black edged with brown ; 

 the rest of the upper-parts barred with rufous and black ; the 

 chest sandy-brown, indistinctly mottled with black ; the breast 

 and sides with concentric bars of rufous-buff and dark brown; 

 the belly brownish-grey, with dusky mottling. Colours of 

 naked skin, &c., and measurements as in the male. 



Eanje. — Central America ; the highlands of Guatemala. 



Mr. Salvin gives the following note on the peculiar sound 

 that this bird makes when on the wing. He says :— " I well 

 remember being startled by a strange sound when shooting in 

 one of the ravines in the Volcan de Agua in Guatemala. Not 

 at first perceiving whence it arose, I walked on, when the noise 

 was again repeated. I then set about discovering the cause, 

 and soon found that it was produced by a male Penelopina 

 nigra which, when flying in a downward direction with out- 

 stretclied wings, gave forth a kind of crashing, rushing noise 

 which I likened at the time to the falling of a tree." 



