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CASSELLS BOOK OF BIRDS. 



THE ANIUMA, OR HORNED SCREAMER. 

 The Aniuma, or Horned Screamer (Palamcdea cornuta), is characterised by a horn upon the 

 brow, its thickly-plumaged bridles, and the short feathers on its head and neck. The horn of this 

 species, which is about five or six inches long, either straight and upright or slightly curved, is situated 

 near the beak, and is about a line and a half in diameter at its base. The upper wing-spur is about 

 two inches long, pointed and triangular, and curves gently upwards ; and the lower one strong, almost 





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THE GOLD-BREASTED TRUMPETER (Psophia crepitans). 



straight, and about four lines long. The velvety feathers on the crown are whitish grey tipped with 

 black ; those of the cheeks, throat, neck, back, breast, wings, and tail are blackish brown ; those on 

 the shoulder and large wing-covers of a greenish metallic shade ; and the small cover-feathers yellowish 

 at their roots. The feathers on the lower throat and upper breast are silver-grey, broadly edged with 

 black, and those of the belly and rump pure white, the horn whitish grey, and the foot slate-colour. 

 This bird is thirty inches long and seventy-eight broad ; the wing measures twenty-one, and the tail 

 eleven inches. 



The Aniuma is a native of Brazil, where it frequents the vast swamps and savannahs, and preys 

 upon the swarms of small animals with which they teem. In these localities, an incessant discord of 

 jarring sounds arises from the voices of the multifarious inhabitants, but high and shrill above them all 



