THE PIPING GUANS. 25 1 



Penelope cumafte?ists and P. pipile, Gmel. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 734 

 (1788) ; J. E. Gray, Knowsl. Menag. ii. pi. 10 (1846). 



Pipile aima7iensis^ Bonap. ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 xxii. p. 517(1893). 



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



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

 (1867). 



Pe?ielope grayi^ Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 284 (1870). 



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

 General colour above black, glossed with dark green ; the 

 first six or seven outer secondary coverts ivhite 07i both webs, 

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

 of the feathers of the chest and breast margined with 

 white. 



Male: Total length, 30 inches; wing, I3'2 ; tail, ii'5; 

 tarsus, 2 '5 ; middle toe and claw, 2 •6. 



Pemale : Smaller; wing, 12-6 inches. 



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

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

 Rio Napo, Ecuador ; E ist(,Tn Peru, Bolivia ; and Matto Grosso 

 in Brazil. 



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



Penelope jaciiti?iga, Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 53, pi. 70 (1825). 

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



(1831). 



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



Pipile Jacufinga, 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 ofily of the secondary 

 coverts white ; chin and upper part of throat covered with 



