8 SCREAMER. 



GENUS LXXII— SCREAMER. 



1 Horned || 2 Chaja 



JO ILL bending down at the point. 



Nostrils oval. 



Spurs at the bend of the wing. 



Toes divided to the origin, except a small membrane between 

 each at the bottom. 



Palamedea cornuta, Ind. Orn. ii. 669. Lin. i. 232. Gm. Lin. i. 615. Borowsk. iii. 



69. pi. 46. 

 Anhima, Bris.v. 518. Id. 8vo. ii. 349. Rati, 96. 7. Will. 276. t. 47. 

 Le Kamichy, Buf. vii. 335. pi. 18. PL enl. 451. Schmid, Vog. 129. t. 113. 

 Aigle d' Eau cornu, Descr. Surin. ii. 143. 

 Camoucle, Mem. sur Cay. ii. 286. pi. 4. 

 Homed Screamer, Gen.Syn.x. 18. pi. 74. Nat. Misc. pi. 565. 



SIZE of a Turkey ; length three feet four inches. Bill two 

 inches and a quarter long, and black ; the upper mandible a little 

 gibbous at the base, the under shutting beneath it, as in the Galli- 

 naceous Tribe ; nostrils oval and pervious, near the middle of the 

 bill ; from the top of the head, near the forehead, arises a slender 

 horn, of more than three inches in length, sharp at the end, pointing- 

 forwards, and movable in every direction, being only attached to 

 the skin ; irides gold-colour; plumage on the head, neck, and upper 

 parts of the body, black, the feathers of the first margined with 

 grey, and downy ; some of those round the neck also edged with the 

 same ; the under parts of the wings pale rufous, appearing on the 

 shoulders and edges of them, when closed ; at the bend of the wing 

 two strong, sharp, horny, yellow spurs, one above the other, the 



