GUAN. 



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GENUS LVII— GUAN. 



1 Crested Guan 



2 Piping 



3 Yacou 



4 Marail 



5 Crying Guan 



6 Obscure 



7 Supercilious 



8 Eyebrow 



9 Motmot Guan 



10 Parraqua 



11 Courier 



JjILL naked at the base. 

 Head covered with feathers. 

 Throat naked. 



Tail consisting of twelve feathers. 

 Legs without spurs. 



1— CRESTED GUAN. 



Penelope cristata, Ind. Orn. ii. 619. Gm. Lin. i. 733. 



————— Jacupema, Merretn, Ic. ii. 42. t. 11. 



Meleagris cristata, Lin. i. 269. Borowsk. ii. 170. 



Gallopavo Brasiliensis, Bris. i. 162. Id. 8vo. i. 43, Gerin. ii. t. 227. 



Phasianus fuscus Brasiliensis, Klein, 112. 4. 114. 2. 



Penelope cristata, Penelope Guan, Tem. Pig. Sf Gall. iii. p. 45. Id. t. 6. f. 1, 2, 3 — 



the windpipe. 

 Der Penelope mit den Schopfe, Sckmid, Vog. p. 98. t. 84. 

 Jacupema, Raii, 56. 2. Will. 118. t. 28. Id. Engl. 165. 

 L'Yacu-apeti,* Voy. d' Azara,\v. No. 337. 

 Guan or Quan, Gen. Syn. iv. 680. Edw. pi. 13. Lin. Trans, iv. 101. pi. x. f. 1— 



the windpipe. 



SIZE of a Fowl ; length thirty inches. Bill two inches long, 

 black ; irides dirty orange; the feathers on the top of the head one 

 inch and three quarters long, not pointed at the ends, but forming a 

 kind of crest; general colour of the plumage black, with a greenish 

 gloss, the margins of the feathers mostly white ; the head feathers 



* L'Yacu-apeti in the language of the Guaranis, means Yacu with white spots. 



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