MARAIL GUAN. 

 (Penelope Marail.) 



PB. corpore nigro-virescente (eneo-nitente, collo infra pectoreque 

 albo-maculatis, temporibus nudis pallide rubris ; gvtture mem- 

 bran&que longitudinal i rubris, pilosis. (Femina vix cristata.) 



Guan with the body green-black, glossed with brassy; the neck 

 beneath, and the breast, spotted with white ; the temples 

 naked, and pale red 5 the throat with a longitudinal red 

 membrane, and hairy. (Female scarcely crested.) 



Penelope Marail. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 734. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 

 620. 4.Temm. Gall. Ind. 692. 



Le Marail. Buff. Ois. 2. 3QO. 



Faisan verdatre de Cayenne. 'Buff. PI. Enl. 338. 



P6nflope Marail. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. 56. pi. ?.f. 1. 



Marail Turkey. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 682. 



LENGTH twenty-three or twenty-four inches: 

 the male with a tufted crest, the feathers of which 

 it is composed being broadest at their .tips ; they 

 are of a green-black, with a narrow border of 

 white : from the base of the lower mandible of the 

 beak arises a broad streak of small feathers, which 

 are of a green colour, bordered with white, and 

 passes to the coverts of the ear : the whole of the 

 upper parts, the neck, and the breast, are of a 

 brilliant deep green, with brassy reflections : the 

 back and the rump are the same ; but the nape, 

 the top of the back, and the breast, have the 

 whole of the feathers bordered with white : the 

 lower part of the belly, the abdomen, and the 

 under tail-coverts, are brown : the naked space 

 on the cheeks communicates with the cere of the 



