rENELOPE. — ORTALIS. 27 



Adult male. General colour above and below bronze-brown, 

 darker on the nape, hind-neck, and back, with white maroins to 

 tlie upper wing-coverts and the feathers on the fore-neck and 

 bre.ist ; some of the feathers on the lower breast have rufous 

 edoinos. The feathers on the forehead white with dark shaft- 

 lines like those on the cheeks ; a broad white eyebrow which 

 extenJs on to the sides of the neck. 



Total length 700 mm., culmen 3G, wing 301, tail 2(J3, tarsus 80, 

 middle toe and claw 78. 



The descri[)tion is taken from an example in the British Museum 

 obtained at South-east Brazil. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 



Breedi))(j-seasoa. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Xest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



K[i(js. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



liange in British Guiana. " Distributed over the whole of British 

 Guiana up to an altitude of 4000 to 5000 feet" {Schombn)'(/k). 



K.vtralimital Ran<je. East Brazil. 



Ilahits. Schomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 745) writes : — This 

 shy species is also distributed over the whole of British Guiana, 

 and I found it even at an altitude of 4000 to 5000 feet. Its 

 habits are like those of S. cr(staia^= Penelope marial, p. 25, onlv 

 it is more often found on the ground. The flesh is very good 

 eating. 



Genus ORTALIS Merrem. 



Orftili.s Merrem, Avium Ear. Icon, ot Dcscr. pt. ii. ]>. 40, 17SG. Tyjie 

 O. motmot (Limi.). 



This genus is characterized by having a large naked sj>ace round 

 the eye, sides of throat also naked with a narrow line of hair-like 

 feathers down the middle, the tail rounded and composetl of 

 twelve featluTs, the middle feathers longest, and the tarsus about 

 e(|ual in length to the middle toe and claw. 



If.. Ortalis motmot. 



LllTLK GfAX. 



Oitiilix mnfmot fLinn.), Syst. Nat. i. j). 271, 17()G ("Brasilia"); 

 Siilvin, Iliis, ISSG. p. 17.1 ( Haitica (Jrove, Knraima) ; W. b. 

 Scl;it<T, Ibis, 1SS7, )). .'U7 ( Macfa.sscmi;!, I'diiicronii Kivrr); 

 O^'ivHr-drant. (';it. H. \\\\\. Mus. xxii. p. .')().-). 1S!»:{; Hrabnuriio c^ 

 Cliul.b. Jl S. Aiiitr. i. p. 1 I. nn, l(t|. I;il2. 



