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are long and loose; interrupted white bands cross the remiges, and 
the bases and tips of the lateral rectrices. The iris is yellow, the 
beak and feet are red, the naked orbits greenish. The female is 
yellower, and exhibits less crest. Chunga burmeisteri, the Chunia 
of Tucuman and Catamarca in Argentina, is smaller and darker, 
Fre. 53.—Seriema. Cariamea cristata. x +#. 
with shorter legs and little crest ; it hasa broad white superciliary 
streak, and two wide black bars on the tail-feathers, except the 
median pair. The bill and feet are black, the iris is grey. 
Both species are chiefly diurnal, the former frequenting the 
high grass of the open 
six, the latter forests or bushy districts; they roost on trees, 
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campos” in pairs and parties of five or 
