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tions until they end in shrill screams, amusingly expressive of 

 fear and timidity. 



" x\t times, more especially just about sunrise, the commu- 

 nity of Charatas unite together to produce an extraordinary 

 din. They utter loud and very harsh cries, something like the 

 sound of a gigantic rattle, or of the syllables * chacarata, cha- 

 carata,' from which they get their Guarani name, ' Charata.' 

 All the birds in one part of the forest uniting in this, the effect 

 is almost deafening. Other companies of birds answer, and 

 on a fine morning in the Chaco, just after sunrise, one hears 

 these Charata-choruses resounding in all directions. 



" The Charata is a favourite article of food with the Indians, 

 who attract it by imitating the call-note, and shoot it with 

 bow and arrow. Amongst the Tobas it is called " Cochine," 

 in imitation of its call." 



b^. Chest-feathers 7?iargi?ied or spotted with whitish at the extremi- 

 ties. Third pair of tail-feathers never widely tipped with 

 chestnut on both webs. No strongly marked eyebrow-stripes 

 extending backwards down the sides of the head. 



VII. THE WHITE-BELLIED GUAN. ORTALIS ALBIVENTER. 



Penelope albivetitris^ Wagler, Isis, 1830, p. mi. 

 Ortalida albiventris, Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 1227. 

 Ortalis albiventris, Ogilvie- Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 

 508 (1893). 



Adult. — Top of the head and nape brownish-chestnut; feathers 

 on the sides of the face and upper-parts of the neck pointed 

 and edged with white; upper-parts olive-brown (with some 

 bronze or purplish gloss in freshly moulted specimens) ; lower 

 back mostly chestnut ; chest and breast brownish, edged with 

 white ; belly white ; three outer pairs of tail-feathers dark olive- 

 green, with the terminal half chestnut. (In some examples 

 the third pair are also tipped with chestnut.) Total length, 



