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BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA, 



Fig. 5. — To show the bare space round the eye and the wattle 

 on the throat. 



18. Penelope granti. 

 Grant's Guan. 



Penelope f/nrnti Berlepsch, Nov. Zool. xv, p. 297, 1009 (Bvitisli Guiana) ; 



Bral)Ourne & Chubb, B. S. Anier. i. p. 10, no. 94, 1912. 

 Penelope ma rial (nee Clmel.), Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. 



p. 49o, 1893 (Takutu Kiver) ; Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, 



pp. 179, 8.S9, 1910 (Hoorie Kiver). 

 Salpiza viarial (nee Gmel.), Cab. in Schomb. Keis. Guiiin. iii. p. 7-l'5, 



184,S. 

 Penelope cristata Salvin, Ibis, ISSG, p. 175. 



Adult. General colour above dark bluish olos.sj green, the 

 feathers on tlie head, sides ot" neck, cheeks, and mantle edged 

 with grey, also some of the lesser upper wing-coverts ; outer 

 primaries pale brown; a large bare space round the eye; chin and 

 throat bare, with a few hair-like feathers ; fore-neck and breast 

 dark bluish green with white margins to the feathers, Avhich 

 fade away on the abdomen and sides of the body ; vent smoky- 

 brown ; flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts dark bottle-green. 



Total length 710 mm., culmcn 38, wing 300, tail 300, tarsus 81, 

 middle toe and claw 75. 



The bird described is from the Ituribisi Ixiver. 



