134 GUAN. 



Turkey, and surrounds the base of the bill as a cere; beneath the 

 chin a naked membrane, or kind of wattle, capable of elongation, 

 but not at all times elongated, or liable to change colour as in the 

 Turkey; plumage in general brown, with some markings of white 

 on the neck, breast, wing coverts, and belly ; the three exterior quills 

 are most bent towards the end, growing narrow and ending in a 

 point ; the tail is long, consisting of twelve feathers, and even at the 

 end ; legs red. 



In some birds the general colour of the plumage is nearly black, 

 and the breast marked with short white streaks, in the middle of each 

 feather : probably these variations may be owing to difference of sex. 



Inhabits Cayenne, but is somewhat rare, being met with only in 

 the inner parts, or about the Amazon's Country ; is in much greater 

 plenty up the River Oyapoc, especially about the Camoupi ; and 

 indeed those seen about Cayenne are for the most part tame ones, for 

 it is a familar bird, and will breed in that state, and mix with other 

 poultry. It makes the nest on the ground, laying five or six eggs, 

 and hatches the young there, but at other times mostly seen on trees. 

 It frequently erects a crest, when pleased, or taken notice of, and 

 will sometimes spread the tail like a fan, in the manner of a Turkey. 

 It has two kinds of cry, one like that of a young Turkey j the other 

 lower, and more plaintive ; the first of these is thought by the 

 Indians to express the word Couejovoit, the other Yacou. It lives 

 on fruits, worms, insects, &c. Merrem observes, that the trachea 

 in this bird proceeds at once into the cavity of the thorax, not ex- 

 tending over the external muscles, differing in this particular from 

 the following species. 



This and the former inhabit Brazil, and are called Jacutingas ; 

 thought by some to be the same, differing in sex, age, or variety of 

 plumage. 



