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cream-colour, and this is spotted and blotched all over, but not very 

 densely except at what may be described as the larger end, with 

 pale yellowish brown and faint underlying purple. At the end 

 where the markings are more frequent, these are intermingled with 

 numerous lines and scrawls of the same yellowish brown as the 

 blotches, and similar lines also appear here and there on other parts 

 of the shell. Four examples measure from 2'45 to 2'55 in length, 

 and from 1-63 to 1'73 in breadth. 



4. Argentine Republic, Oct. A. H. Holland, Esq. [0.]. 



Sub-Order PSOPHIA. 

 Family PSOPHIIDJE. 



Genus PSOPHIA, Linn. 



Psophia leucoptera, Spix. 

 (Plate V. fig. 6.) 



Psophia leucoptera, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiii. p. 280 (1894); 

 Blaauw, Bull. B. O. C. v. p. xviii (1896) j Ibis, 1896, p. 260 ; Sharpe, 

 Hand-l. i. p. 181 (1899). 



The single egg of the White-winged Trumpeter in the Collection 

 is of a very blunt oval form, both ends being nearly equally rounded, 

 and of a dull white colour with a very slight tinge of buff. The 

 shell is rough and without gloss. The specimen measures 2-2 by 1*65. 



1. Laid in confinement (s'Graveland, F. E. Blaauw, Esq. [P.l. 

 Holland, July). 



Sub-Order DICHOLOPHI. 

 Family CARIAMID.E. 



Genus CARIAMA, Briss. 

 Cariama cristata, Linn. 



Dicholophus cristatus, Thien. Fortgftanz. ges. Vog. tab. Ixxii. fig. 14 



(1845-54). 

 Cariama cristata, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 42 (1874) ; Scl.fyHuds. 



Argent. Orn. ii. p. 161 (1889) ; Newton, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 25, pi. 1 ; 



Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 182 (1899); Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 3 



(1899) ; von Ihering, Rev. Mus. Paulista, iv. p. 289 (1900). 



The eggs of the Crested Cariama in the Collection, all of which 

 were laid in confinement, vary much in shape, size, and colour. 



One example is nearly a perfect ellipse, smooth and dull white, 

 with obsolete traces of a very few brownish blotches. It measures 

 2-4 by 1-85. 



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