THE GUANS. 



IV. WAGLERS GUAN. ORTALIS WAGLKRI. 



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Ortalida iva^icri^ G. R. Gray, List (ialliiKu I5rit. Mus. j). 12 



(1867); 

 Ortalis ivagleri^ Ogilvic-Grant, Cat. 13. Urit. Mus. xxii. p. 507 



(1893). 



{Plate XX XIX.) 



Adnlt Male and Female. — Top of the head hrownisJi-black, 

 shading into dark grey on the nape ; eyebrow-stripes, feathers 

 on the sides of the head and down the middle of the throat 

 paler grey; breast and rest of under-parts cJiestmit ; four outer 

 pairs of tail-feathers dark bluish-green, widely tipped with dark 

 chestnut. Total length, 25-5 inches; wing, 9-5; tail, io"5 ; 

 tarsus, 3 ; middle toe and claw, 3. 



Range. — AVestern Mexico ; Sinaloa and the Territory of 

 Tepic. 



V. JARDINE's GUAN. ORTALIS RUFICAUDA. 



Ortalida ncficauda, Jardine, Ann. Mag. N. H. xx. p. 374 (1S47); 



id. Contr. Orn. 1841, p. 16, pi. [structure]. 

 Ortalida bronzina, G. R. Gray, List Gallinas Brit. Mus. p. 1 1 



(1867). 

 Ortalis rnjicauda^ Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 507 

 (1893). 

 Adult Male and Female. — Top of the head and nape uniform 

 diirk grey ; chest brownish-olive; breast and belly whitish buff ; 

 \}[\Qfive outer pairs of tail-feathers tipped with chestnut. 



Male: Total length, 24 inches ; wing, 8*6; tail, 10; tarsus, 

 2 "5 ; middle toe and claw, 2-4. 



Female: Rather smaller; wing, 8*2 inches. 



Eange. — Northern South America ; Venezuela and the island 

 of Tobago. 



Eggs. — Long, oval, white, with a finely grained surface. 

 Measurements, 2 45 by 17 inches. 



