178 CRESTED GUAN. 



ficult to separate the species with accuracy : they 

 build on trees, and feed on fruits and seeds. All 

 the species have a very similar cry, like the words 

 jacUy yawn, yacuhu, orjacuhu: which names the 

 Indians have applied to several of the species 

 from that circumstance. 



A. Capite cristato. 

 a. With the head crested. 



CRESTED GUAN. 

 (Penelope cristate.) 



PE. corpore nigro-virescente, dorsojusco, uropygio abdomineque 

 castanets } cotto pectoreque albo-maculatis ; temporibus nudis 

 violaceis; gutture membranaque longitudinali rubris pilosis. 

 (Femina vix cristata.) 



Guan with a black-green body; the back brown; the rump and 

 abdomen chesnut-coloured ; the neck and breast spotted with 

 white; the temples naked and violet; the throat and lon- 

 gitudinal membrane red and hairy. (Female scarcely crested.) 



Penelope cristata. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 733. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 

 gig. Temm. Gall. Ind. p. 6Q\. 



Meleagris cristata. Linn. Syst. Nat. l. 269. 



Gallopavo Brasiliensis. Briss. Orn. 1. 162. 



L'Yacou. Buff. Ois. 2. 387. 



Penelope Guan. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. p. 46. pi. d.f.l, 2, 3. 



Guan, or Quan. Ediv. Glean, pi. 13. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 680 



ABOUT two feet seven inches in length : the 

 whole of the upper part of the plumage of the male 



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