HORNED SCREAMER. 
liinder claw, as well as by the larger and more robust 
form of the only species yet known. 
HORNED SCREAMER. 
(Palamedea cornuta.) 
Pa. corpore nigricante, albo variegato, ahdomine inferior e Jemo' 
ribusque albis, rostro pedibusque nigris. 
Screamer with a dusky body, variegated with white, the lower 
part of the abdomen and the thighs white, the beak and legs 
black. 
Palamedea cornuta. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 232. Gmel. Syst, Nat, 
1.615. Lath. Lid. Orn. 2. 669. 
Anhima. Briss. Orn. .5. 518. Raii, Syn. 96. 
Le Kamichi. Buff. Ols. 7. 335. pi 18. Buff. PI. Enl. 451. 
Ciiv. Reg. Anim. 1. 499. 
Horned Screamer. I^ath. Gen. Syn. 5. \S. pi. 74. 
As large as a Turkey : its length upwards of three 
feet : its beak is black : from the crown of the head 
springs a slender horn of more than three inches in 
length, and pointed at the end : irides golden : the 
plumage of the head, neck, and upper part of the 
body is black ; that of the head and neck edged with 
grey and downy : the under parts of the wings are 
pale rufous, which appears at the edges of them and 
on the shoulders when closed : at the bend of the 
wing are two strong, sharp, horny yellow spurs, the 
longest of which is upwards of an inch and a half in 
length : the belly, thighs, and vent are white : the 
