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brown ; the quills darker ; round the eye bare, the chin scarcely 

 feathered, the skin being rather beset with hairs ; the under parts 

 in general pale light ash-colour ; tail cuneiform, the two interior 

 feathers ten inches long, the outer six inches and a half, the two 

 middle ones olive-brown, the others fine chestnut; the wings reach 

 but little beyond the rump; legs red brown. 



This was brought from Berbice, by the name of Karoeba. 



5.—CRYING GUAN. 



Penelope vociferans, Gin. Lin. i. 735. 



Phasianus vociferans, hid. Orn. ii. C25. 



Chachalaeametl, Rail, 163. Fern. H. N. Hisp. ch. 41. 



Chacamel, Buf. ii. 394. 



Crying Curassow, Gen. Syn.iv. 696. 4. 



SIZE of a small Turkey. Bill stout, rather bent, the nostrils 

 placed near the base, colour bluish ; orbits bare, and bluish ; and the 

 breast has a tinge of blue; but the general colour of the plumage is 

 brown ; belly and under parts paler ; tail rather long, and rounded 

 at the end ; legs dull yellow. 



Inhabits Mexico, and cries like other Fowls, but so loudly, and 

 continually, that it may be compared to the whole family of the 

 poultry crying out at once ; for one of these will often make as much 

 noise as all the rest together ; hence has arisen the name of Chacha- 

 laeametl or Crying Bird : in its wild state it is found in mountainous 

 parts, and frequently with the Curassow Birds, who are fond of the 

 same haunts. In a drawing which came under our inspection, the 

 two outer feathers of the tail were rufous, the rest of the tail brown. 



6— OBSCURE GUAN. 



Penelope obscura, Yaculiu, Temm. Pig. fy Gall. iii. p. 68. Voy. d'Azara, iv. p. 163. 



LENGTH twenty-eight inches. Bill black; eye surrounded 

 with black, extending to the base of it; irides reddish; from the 



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