THE SCREAMERS 



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has twelve feathers, and the contour feathers are soft and on the neck narrow. 

 Both sexes are alike in plumage. The screamers are divided into two genera of 

 which the first is represented by the horned screamer (Palamedea cornuta] of Guiana 

 and Amazonia, characterized by the presence of a slender horn-like process, five or 

 six inches arising from the middle of the head, and curving upward and forward. 

 Of the two spurs on the wing, the foremost is by far the longer and more powerful. 



HORNED SCREAMER. 



(One-fifth natural size.) 



In color, the soft feathers on the top of the head are whitish gray, with blackish tips; 

 those of the cheeks, throat, upper neck, wings, and tail are dark brown; the inner 

 secondaries and greater wing coverts having a greenish metallic sheen, and the smaller 

 wing coverts yellowish roots; while the feathers of the lower neck and upper breast 

 are silver gray, broadly banded with black, and those of the abdomen pure white. 

 The iris is orange, the beak blackish brown with a whitish tip, the horn whitish 



