CRESTED CARIAMA. ^75 
over, furnished with a membrane at the base : the 
hinder toe is elevated from the ground. In general 
habit it approaches very nearly to the birds of prey, 
and also a little towards the Herons. There is but 
one species known, which is a native of South Ame- 
rica, and feeds upon lizards and insects. 
CRESTED CARIAMA. 
(Cariania cristata.) 
Ca. capite, colio, corporeqiie grzseis, rufo fuscoqiie variis, alls cau- 
daque Juscis. 
Cariania with the head, neck, and bodj' grey, varied with red and 
brown, the wings and tail brown. 
Palamedea cristata. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 232. Gmel. Syst. Nat.. 
1.616. Lath. /nd. Orn. 2. 669. 
Cariama. Briss. Orn. 5. 516. Bi/ffl Ois.7.325. Raii, S//n.96. 
Crested Screamer. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 20. 
Microdactylus cristatus. Geqffi Ann. du Mus. d' Hist. Nat. xiii. 
pL 26. 
Native of South America, and larger tlian a 
Heron : its beak is yellowish-brown : irides gold co- 
lour : on the forehead, at the base of the beak, is a 
tuft of black feathers, variegated with ash colour : the 
head, neck, and body are grey, varied with rufous 
and brown ; the latter colour predominating on the 
wings and tail : the legs are dull ycllov; : the claws 
brown. 
