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Penelope cumanensis and P. pipile, Gmel. S. N. 1. pt. il. p. 734 
(1788); J. E. Gray, Knowsl. Menag. ii. pl. ro (1846). 
Pipile cumanensis, Bonap. ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 
XXil. p. 517 (1893). 
Pipile natterert, Reichenb. Tauben, p. 154 (1862). 
Penelope jacquinit, G. R. Gray, List Gallinze Brit. Mus. p. 8 
(1867). 
Penelope grayt, Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 284 (1870). 
Adult Male and Female—Top of the head and crest white. 
General colour above black, glossed with dark green; the 
first six or seven outer secondary coverts 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. 
Male: Total length, 30 inches; wing, 13°2; tail, 11°5; 
tarsus, 2°5 ; middle toe and claw, 2°6. 
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, Bolivia ; and Matto Grosso 
in Brazil. 
II. THE BLACK-FRONTED PIPING GUAN. PIPILE J.ACUTINGA. 
Penelope jacutinga, Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 53, pl. 70 (1825). 
Penelope nigrifrons, Temm. MS. ; Lesson, Traité d’Orn. p. 482 
(1831). 
Penelope leucoptera, Neuwied. Beitr. Nat. Bras. iv. p.544 (1832). 
Pipile jacutinga, Sclater and Salvin, P. Z. 5. 1870, p. 530; 
Meyer, Vogel-Skel, pt. xiv. pl. cxxxvil (1890); Ogilvie- 
Grant, Cat..B. Brit..Mus> xt. p. 5x8 (1593). 
Adult Male and Female-—General colour above brownish-black 
glossed with purple ; forehead and eyebrow-stripes d/ack ; crest 
white with black shafts; outer webs ov/y of the secondary 
coverts white ; chin and upper part of throat covered with 
