THE PIPING GUANS. 25 1 



Penelope cumanensis and P. pipile, Gmel. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 734 



(178S); J. E. (iray, Knowsl. Menag. ii. pi. 10(1846). 

 Pipik cumanensis, Bonap. ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. 13. Brit. Mus. 



xxii. p. 517(1893)- 

 Pipile nattereri, Reichenb. Tauben, p. 154 (1862). 

 Penelope jacquinii, G. R. Gray, List Gallince Brit. Mus. p. 8 



(1867). 

 Penelope gray i, Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 284 (1870). 



Adult Male and Female. — Top of the head and crest ivhite. 

 General colour above black, glossed ^Yith dark green ; the 

 first six or seven oilier secondary cover/s white on both webs, 

 except the tips, which are black glossed with green ; some 

 of the feathers of the chest and breast margined with 

 white. 



Afale: Total length, 30 inches: wing, 13-2; tail, 11-5; 

 tarsus, 2-5 ; middle toe and claw, 26. 



Female: Smaller; wing, 12-6 inches. 



Range.— South America : British Guiana, Venezuela, Trini- 

 dad, United States of Colombia ; Rio Negro, Upper Amazons ; 

 Rio Napo, Ecuador ; Eastern Peru, Bohvia ; and Matto Grosso 

 in Brazil. 



II. THE BLACK-FRONTED PIPING GUAN. PIPILE JACUTINGA. 



Penelope jacutinga, Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 53, pi. 70 (1S25). 

 Penelope nigrifrons, Temm. MS. ; Lesson, Traite d'Orn. p. 482 



Penelope leucoptera, Neuwied. Beitr. Nat. Bras. iv. p. 544 (1832). 

 Pipile jaciitinga, Sclater and Salvin, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 530; 

 Meyer, Vogel-Skel, pt. xiv. pi. cxxxvii (1890); Ogilvie- 

 Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 518 (1893). 

 Adult Male and Female. — General colour above brownish-black 

 glossed with purple ; forehead and eyebrow-stripes black ; crest 

 white with black shafts ; outer webs only of the secondary 

 coverts white ; chin and upper part of throat covered with 



