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are long and loose ; interrupted white bands cross the remiges, and 

 the bases and tips of the lateral rectrices. The iris is yellow, the 

 beak and feet are red, the naked orbits greenish. The female is 

 yellower, and exhibits less crest. Chunga burmeisteri, the Chunia 

 of Tucuman and Catamarca in Argentina, is smaller and darker, 



FIG. 53. Seriema. Cariama cristata. x f . 



with shorter legs and little crest ; it has a broad white superciliary 

 streak, and two wide black bars on the tail-feathers, except the 

 median pair. The bill and feet are black, the iris is grey. 



Both species are chiefly diurnal, the former frequenting the 

 high grass of the open " campos " in pairs and parties of five or 

 six, the latter forests or bushy districts ; they roost on trees, 



