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CRESTED GUAN. 



ficult to separate the species with accuracy : they 

 build on trees, and feed on fruits and seeds. All 

 the species have a very similar cry, like the words 

 jacu, yacou, yacuhu^ or jacuhu: which names the 

 Indians have applied to several of the species 

 from that circumstance. 



A, Capite cristato, 

 a. With the head crested. 



CRESTED GUAN. 

 (Penelope cristata.) 



Pe. corpore nigro-virescentey dorso Juscoy uropygio abdomineque 

 castaneis; collo pectoreque albo'inaculatis ; temporibus nudis 

 violaceis; gutture membrandque longitudinali rubris pilosis, 

 (Femina vix cristata,) 



Guan with a black-green body; the back brown; the rump and 

 abdomen chesnut-coloured ; the neck and breast spotted with 

 white; the temples naked and violet; the throat and lon/- 

 gitudinal membrane red and hairy. (^Female scarcely crested.) 



Penelope cristata. GmeL Syst. Nat, 1. 733. — Lath, Ind. Orn, 2. 

 619. — Temm, Gall. Ind. p, 691. 



Meleagris cristata. Linn, Syst. Nat, 1 . 269. 



Gallopavo Brasiliensis. Briss, Orn, 1. 162. 



L'Yacou. Buff, Ois. 2. 38/. 



Penelope Guan. Tem,m» Fig, et Gall, 3,p, 46. pi. 6. I, 2, 3, 

 Guan, or Quan. Eduo, Glean, pi. 13. — Lath. Gen, Syn. 4, 680. 



About two feet seven inches in length : the 

 whole of the upper part of the plumage of the male 



