PENELOPE, 25 



j\rale and female similar in i)lnmage, but the female is i?lighlly 

 smaller. 



Hreedirif/season. Unknown. 



^Vesf. Unrecorded. 



Ji^ggs. Undesci"ibed. 



h'a'Kje confined to Bvhish Guiana. Su}»enaam River, Bartio,-?, 

 Ituribisi River, Bonasika River, x4ra\vai River, Essequebo River 

 Great Savannas [McConnell collection); Annai ( Wkitelcf). 



Ilahits. Schomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 7-45) mentions this 

 bird as having the same habits as those of Salpiza cristata = 

 F. marial, vide infra, but prefers the woods near the coast. 



14. Penelope marial. 

 Cayenne Guan. 



Penelope marial ((xim.'!.), Syst. Xat. i. ]). 734, 1789 (" gregaria in 



silvis Gujanae ") ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. j). !(.>, 



no. 93, 1912. 

 Salpizn criistata (nee Linn.), Cab. in Scliomb. lieLs. Guiiin. iii. p. 7-15, 



18-18. 

 Penelope (jreeiji (nee Gray), Salvin, Ibis, 1S8G, p. 174 (Bartica Grove : 



Camacusa : Konuma) ; W. L. Selater, op. cit. 1887, p. 317 (Pome- 



roon liiver). 

 Penelope criatata (nee Linn.), Quckh, Tiniehri (2) iv. pp. 324, 32G 



(Upper Berbice Kiver). 

 Penelope jacapeha (iieu Spix), Ogilvie-Gra.nt, Cat. B. Brit. Mas. xxii. 



]). 494, 1S93 (Quonga. : Caniaousa) ; Beebe, Our Search fur a 



Wiklevness, pp. 321, 389, 1910 (Areniu). 



Adah. General colour of the upper surface dark oil-green ; 

 the feathers on the head, superciliary line, and cheeks edged with 

 slate-grey, becoming paler and inclining to white on the feathers 

 of the mantle, upper back, and lesser upper wing-coverts ; outer 

 webs of prinuiry-quills bronze-brown; a largo bare space round 

 the eye ; chin and throat bare, with only a few hair-like shafts; 

 fore-neck and breast dark oil-green, the feathers margined wilh 

 white ; abdomen, flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts dark 

 brown minutely freckled with rufous, the under tuil-coverts being 

 more uniform and glossy, 



T(^tal length TjOO nnn., culmen ."U*, \\ing 282, tail 220, tarsus (i.*), 

 middle toe and claw (11. 



The above descri|ition is taken fi'eni an example ubiained on 

 the ltmil)isi River. 



Male and female very similur in colour of ph/mage, but tlie 

 male is sligbth- Iar'f<'r. 



