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YACOU GUAN. 



on the back and the rising feathers of the wings 

 and tail are deep chesnut, the whole tipped with 

 red : the under parts of the body are reddish 

 white. 



Often tamed in Brasil, (where it is found in a 

 wild state,) for the sake of its flesh, which is excel- 

 lent, and greatly esteemed. 



YACOU GUAN. 

 (Penelope pipile.) 



p£. capite crista albidS,, corpore nigricante-violaceo, collo pec- 

 toreque albo-punctatis ; tectricibus alarum maculis albis con- 

 spersis; temporibus nudis albidis ; membranula cceruled, pilosa; 

 remigibus apice truncatis. 



Guan with a white crest on the head 5 the body dusky violet ; 

 the neck and breast spotted with white ; the wing-coverts 

 sprinkled with white spots j the temples naked and whitish j the 

 membrane blue and downy 3 the quills truncated at their tips. 



Penelope pipile. Temm. GalL Jnd. p. 6g4. — Gmel, Syst, Nat. 

 1. 734. 4. — Lath. Ind, Orn. 2. 620. 2. 



Penelope cumanensis. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 620. 3. — Gmel. Syst. 

 Nat, 1.734.3. 



Penelope leucolophos. Merrem. Icp. 45.pl. 12. 



Penelope siffleur. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. 76.pl. 7. /. 2. 



Piping Curassow. Lath. Syn. Sup. 205. 



Cumana Curassow. Lath, Syn. Sup, 205. 



Yacou. Buf, Ois. 2. 387.—Lath, Gen. Syn. 4. 6Sl.pl, 61. 



The Yacou Turkey, with the Cumana, and Piping 

 Curassows of Latham, without doubt constitute 



