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secondaries grey, the outer portion of the webs of the feathers 

 disintegrated. 



Total length 480 mm., culmen 37, wing 280, tail 120, tarsus 143. 

 The description is taken from an example obtained on the 

 Mazarnni River. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 



Young in down. Upper surface rufous, mixed with blackish 

 grey on the head and back, paler and more buff on the wings ; a 

 black patch on the throat and fore-neck ; abdomen pale buff. 

 B reedlag-season. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 

 Nest. " A hole in the fork of a tree at the height of about 

 20 feet from the ground" (C A. Lloyd). " The nest is made on 

 the ground" (Schomhurgk). 



Eggs. "' Seven in number, dirty white in colour, a trifle smaller 

 thnn those of the common fowl" (C ^4. Llogd). 



Range in British Guiana. Ituribisi River, Supennam River, 

 Bartica, Kamakabra River, Bonasika River, Mazarnni River 

 (MeConnell collection); Kamakusa, Kamarang River, Takutu 

 River ( Wlatthj) ; Maccasseema ( W. Ij. Sclater) ; Matope and 

 Aremu (^Beehe). 



Ejctralimital Range. North Brazil and Venezuela. 

 Habits. According to Schomburgk (Reis. Guiana, iii. p. 751) 

 the Trumpeter is found in the woods all over British Guiana, 

 occurring singly or in flocks up to two hundred. It never seems 

 to leave the woods. It is very easily tamed, and is found in all 

 the native villages, where they make themselves '■■ cocks of the 

 roost," and even master the tamed quadrupeds ; even the large 

 hokkos has to bow to iis regime. Its power of flight is so weak, 

 that when a number attempt to fly across a fairly wide river 

 several fall in and reach the other side by swinnning. It seems to 

 prefer the damp low-lying woods near the coast to tiiose of higher 

 altitudes. The nest is made on the ground. The flesh is "ood. 

 The " Macusis " call it lakamik and the " Warraus^^ Warracaba. 

 Mr. (J. A. Lloyd (Timehri (2) xi. p. 3) gives the following 

 notes on the habits of this bird : — " For a long time we could 

 gather no reliable information concerning the nesting-habits of the 

 AV^arracaba (Psojdtia crej>ilans), some persons stating that all the 

 females in a flock of these birds laid together in a eonnnon lU'st on 

 the ground, otiiers declaring that they nested in trees and thattiie 

 eggs wore blue. At last we had the pleasure of taking a nest in 



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