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MARAIL GUAN. 

 (Penelope Marail.) 



Pe. corpore nigro-virescente (Eneo-nitente, collo infra pectoregue 

 albo-maculatisj temporibus nudis pallide rubris ; gutture mem- 

 branaque longitudinali rubris y pilosis, (Femina vix cristata.) 



Ouan with the body green-black, glossed with brassy j the neck 

 beneath, and the breast, spotted with white; the temples 

 naked, and pale red; the throat with a longitudinal red 

 membrane, and hairy. (^Female scarcely crested.) 



Penelope Marail. Gmel. SysU Nat. i. ^34.— Lath, Ind. Orn, 2. 

 620. 4.^Temm. Gall. Ind, 692. 



Le Marail. Buff, Ois. 2. SQO. 



Faisan verdatre de Cayenne. Buff, PL EnL 338. 



Penelope Marail. Temm, Pig, et Gall, 3. 56. pi, 7,f, 1. 



Marail Turkey. Lath, Gen, Syn, 4. 682. 



Length twenty-three or twenty-four inches : 

 the male with a tufted crest, the feathers of which 

 it is composed being broadest at their tips ; they 

 are of a green-black, with a narxow border of 

 white : from the base ©f the lower mandible of the 

 beak arises a broad streat of small feathers, which 

 are of a green colour, bordered with white, and 

 passes to the coverts of the ea;r : the whole of the 

 upper parts, the neck, and the breast, are of a 

 brilliant deep green, with brassy reflections : the 

 back and the rump are the same ; but the nape, 

 the top of the back, and the breast, have the 

 whole of the feathers bordered with white : the 

 lower part of the belly, the abdomen, and the 

 under tail-coverts, are brown : the naked space 

 on the cheeks communicates with the cere of the 



