12 CARIAMA. 



GENUS LXXII.tt— CARIAMA. 



JjILL as long as the head, bending towards the point. 



Nostrils near the base, surrounded by short feathers. 



Head furnished with a double tuft of feathers. 



Legs long, bare considerably above the knee. 



Toes three before and one behind ; the latter short, and placed 

 too high up to be useful in walking. 



BRAZILIAN CARIAMA— Pl. cxlii. 



Palamedea cristata, Ind. Orn. ii. 669. Lin. i. 232. Gin. Lin. i. 616. 



Cariama, Bris. v. 516. Id. 8vo. ii. 348. Buf. vii. 325. Raii, 96. 6. Will. 202. 



t. 51. Id. Engl. 276. pl. 51. Marc. Bras. pl. in p. 203. 

 Dicholophus, Caziama, Tern. Man. d'Orn. Ed. ii. Anal. p. xcvi. 

 Le Saria, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 340. 

 Crested Screamer, Gen. Syn. v. p. 20. 2. 



THIS is about the size of the Horned Screamer ; standing erect 

 it is twenty-nine or thirty inches in height. The bill formed nearly 

 as in the Gallinaceous Tribe, strong, the upper mandible black, the 

 under orange, the length from the gape three inches ; irides gold- 

 colour; round the eye naked and bluish ; the head large, the crown 

 furnished with a large crest, consisting of loose feathers, part of which 

 advances over the bill, the other tending backwards ; the colour a 

 light nightingale brown ; the rest of the head, and whole of the 

 neck the same, but paler, and freckled ; and the wing coverts have 

 a ferruginous tinge, growing deeper towards the quills, which are 

 deep brown ; breast dirty freckled white ; thighs covered with white 

 down, and behind them a border of striped hackles, with a brush of 

 yellowish, or brownish white; the feathers similar to those of the 



