826 SERIEMA 
SERIEMA, otherwise Cartama,! a South-American bird, suffi- ‘ 
ciently well described and figured in Maregrave’s work (Hist. Rer. 
Nat. Brasilix, p. 203), posthumously published by De Laet in 1648, 
to be recognized by succeeding ornithologists, among whom Brisson 
in 1760 acknowledged it as forming a distinct genus Cariama, 
SERIEMA, 
while Linneus regarded it as a second species of Palamedea 
(SCREAMER, p. 819), under the name of P. cristata, Englished 
in 1785 by Latham (Gen. Synops. v.. p. 20) the ‘Crested 
Screamer,’—an appellation, as already observed, since transferred 
to a wholly different bird. Nothing more seems to have been 
known of it in Europe till 1803, when Azara published at Madrid 
his observations on the birds of Paraguay (Apuntamientos, No. 340), 
wherein he gave an account of it under the name of “Saria,” which 
it bore among the Guaranis,—that of “ Cariama” being applied to 
it by the Portuguese settlers, and both expressive of its ordinary 
cry.2_ It was not, however, until 1809 that this very remarkable 
1 In this word the initial C, as is usual in Portuguese, is pronounced soft, 
and the accent laid upon the last syllable. 
* Yet Forbes states (Jbis, 1881, p. 358) that Seriema comes from Siri, ‘‘a 
diminutive of Indian extraction,” and Hma, the Portuguese name for the Rhea 
(cf, EmEU, p. 212, note.1), the whole thus meaning ‘‘ Little Rhea.” 
