GUAN. 133 



4.— MARAIL GUAN. 



Penelope Marail, Lid. Orn. ii. 620. Gm. Lin. i. 734. Buf. ii. 390. /?, £onnt»i v; p. 



307. Jd. ^(fdif. 310. pi. 49. f. 2. Bonaf. Ta6. JSncyc. Orw. 171. pi. 83. f. 4. 

 Faisan verdatre de Cayenne, PL enl. 338. 



Penelope Marail, Temtn. Pig. et Gall. iii. p. 56. Id. tab. Anat. 7. f. 1. — Windpipe. 

 Maraye, Mem. sur Cay. i. 383. pi. 3. 4. Descr. de Surin. ii. 149. 

 Marail Turkey, Gen. Syn. iv. 682. Lin. Trans, iv. 100. pi. 9. f. 2.— the Trachea. 



SIZE and shape of a full grown Fowl ; length about two feet. 

 Bill and irides blackish ; round the eye bare, and pale red; chin, 

 throat, and fore part of the neck scarcely covered with feathers, but 

 the throat itself is bare, and the membrane elongated to half an inch 

 or more ; both this, and the skin round the eyes, change colour, and 

 become deeper, and thicker, when the bird is irritated ; the head 

 feathers, too, are longish, and appear like a crest when raised up, 

 or when the bird is agitated, at which time it erects the feathers of 

 the whole head, and so disfigures itself, as scarcely to be known : 

 the general colour of the plumage is greenish black * the feathers on 

 the fore part of the neck tipped with white ; the wings are short ; 

 tail long, consisting of twelve feathers, rounded at the end, and 

 generally carried pendent, but capable of being erected, in the 

 manner of that of the Turkey ; legs bright red ; claws crooked, and 

 sharp. The female differs in the plumage being more dull, and the 

 head feathers shorter. 



This is not uncommon in the woods of Guiana ; also about Rio 

 de Janeiro, in Brazil, there called Jacupemba; chiefly at a distance 

 from the sea, but not generally known ; is rarely found but in small 

 flocks, except in breeding time ; for the most part seen in pairs, and 

 on the ground, or low shrubs, but passes the night on high trees : 

 the female makes the nest on a low bushy tree, near the trunk, and 

 lays three or four eggs ; after ten or twelve days the young descend 

 with the parents, who act as other Fowls, scratching on the ground 

 like a Hen, and brooding the young, which quit their nurse as soon 



