ORDER GALLINiE. 7 



Grace . Tuber osa. Spix. t. 67- 



Shining violet-black, with a red abdomen, and white 

 tips to the tail ; the bill compressed, and without any 

 appendages. 



Cr. Uramutum. Spix. Braz. t. 62. 



Chesnut-brown ; with a black head and tail, and red 

 and black banded back, and wing-coverts, and a 

 narrow crest of long recumbent feathers. 



N. B. The Chacamel, BufF. Crcu; Vociferans, 

 Gmel., founded on a vague indication of Fernandez, 

 ch. 6l, is not sufficiently authenticated. Sonnini 

 thinks that it may be the Falco Vulturinus. The 

 Caracara of BufF. and of Dutertre, is the genus 

 Agamii Psophia. 



The GuANsf or Yacous, (Penelope.) Merrem. 



Have a thinner bill than the hoccos ; round the 

 eyes, and under the throat, are naked ; and the naked 

 part under the throat is capable of being inflated. 



Many varieties of colour are also known, among 

 which it is difficult to establish specific limits ; those 

 especially which have a crest, and some of them of 



f Guan and Yacou are names of the birds in Guiana and Brazil. Pene- 

 loi)e, which was introduced by Merrem, implied among the Greeks a species 

 of duck, which, as they said, saved from drowning the wife of Ulysses, in 

 her infancy. 



