PENELOPINiE. 
and  in  tlie  cool  of  the  morning  and  evening  they  are  actively  engaged  in  searching  from  tree  to  tree  or  on  the  ground  for 
their  food,  which  consists  of  fruits  and  various  kinds  of  insects.  Their  flight  is  heavy  and  performed  with'difSculty,  from 
the  shortness  of  their  wings.  It  is  on  the  summits  of  the  trees  that  the  female  forms  her  nest,  in  which  she  deposits 
from  two  to  five  eggs. 
1.  O.  katraca  (Bodd.)  PI.  enl.  146.  — Phasianus  motmot  Gmel.; 
Pliasianus  parragua  Lath. 
2.  O.  albiventer  Wagl.  Isis,  1830.  1111, 
3.  O.  ruficollis. — Penelope  albiventer  Less.  Rev.  Zool.  1842. 
p.  174. 
4.  O.  leucogaster. — Penelope  leucogaster  Gould,  Voy.  Sulpli.  Birds, 
pi.  . 
5.  O.  ruficeps  Wagl.  Isis,  1830. 1111. 
6.  O.  garrula  (Humb.)  Wagl.,  Humb.  Obs.  de  Zool.  et  Anat. 
Comp.  1.  p,  4. 
7.  O.  vetula  Wagl.  Isis,  1830.  1112. 
8.  O.  poliocephaki  Wagl.  Isis,  1830.  1112. 
9.  O.  canicollis  Wagl.  Isis,  1830.  1112. 
10.  O.  guttata  (Spix),  Wagl.,  Spix  Av.  Bras.  i.  73. 
11.  O.  araucuan  (Spix),  Wagl.,  Spix  Av.  Bras.  t.  74. 
12.  O.  squamata  (Less.)  Wagl.,  Dict.des  Sci.  Nat.  ,59.  p.  19.5. 
13.  O.  caracco  (Poepp.)  Fror.  Notiz.  1831.  p.  8. 
14.  O.  Goudotii  Less.  Man.  d’Orn.  ii.  217 Type  of  Chamie- 
petes  XVagler  (1832). 
Penelope  Merr.^ 
The  general  characters  like  those  of  Ortalida,  but  the  first  series  of  quills  are  arched,  and  more  or 
less  narrowed  at  their  ends.  The  sides  of  the  head  and  the  front  of  the  throat  naked  and  wattled. 
1.  P.  pipile  (Jacq.)  Gmel.,  Jacq.  Gescli.  der  Vogel,  t.  11.  — Pe- 
nelope leucolophus  Merr.  Avium  leones,  &c.  t.  12.;  Penelope 
jacatinga  Spix,  Av.  Bras.  t.  70. 
2.  P.  cumanensis  (Jacq.)  Gmel.,  Jacq.  Geschichte  der  Vogel, 
t.  10. 
3.  P.  aburri  Goud.  Diet,  des  Sci.  Nat.  59.  p.  191. 
4.  V.  piieata  Licht.  Isis,  1830.  IIO9. 
5.  P.  purpurascens  Wagl.  Isis,  1830.  1110. 
6.  P.  cristata  (Linn.)  Lath.  Edwards’s  Birds,  pi.  IS.  — Penelope 
jacuacu  -Spia;,  Av.  Bras.  t.  63. ; P.jacupema  Afer.  Avium  leones, 
&c.  t.  11..? 
7.  V.jaaucaca  Spix,  Av.  Bras.  t.  69.  — P.  jacu-pemba  Spix, 
Av.  Bras.  t.  71. .? 
8.  F.  superciliaris  lUig.  — P.jaca-pemba  Spix,  Av.  Bras.  t.  72. 
9.  P.  marail  Gmel.  PI.  enl.  338.  — Type  of  Salpiza  Wagler 
(1832). 
10.  P.  obscura  Illig.  Temm.  Pig.  & Gall.  111.  p.  68.  et  693., 
Azara  No.  333. 
Oreophasis. 
Bill  lengthened,  compressed  on  the  sides  ; the  base  of  both  mandibles  covered  with  soft  velvety  dotvn, 
forming  a short  but  lengthened  crest  along  the  basal  portion  of  the  culmcn  to  the  front  of  the  nostrils  ; 
the  anterior  part  of  the  culmen  vaulted  and  arched  to  the  tip  ; nostrils  concealed  by  the  velvety  down, 
except  the  opening,  which  is  rather  ovate.  Winffs  rather  short,  and  much  rounded,  with  the  sixth  and 
seventh  quills  the  longest.  Tail  lengthened,  very  broad,  and  much  rounded  at  its  end.  Tarsi  rather 
shorter  than  the  middle  toe,  robust.  Toes  long,  and  the  lateral  ones  equal  ; the  claws  moderate, 
compressed,  and  slightly  curved.  The  space  above  the  eye  naked  ; with  a broad,  rounded,  and  elevated 
knob,  truncated  at  its  end.  Two  longitudinal  stripes  below  the  under  mandible,  and  a semicircular 
space  on  the  throat,  denuded  of  feathers. 
This  fine  bird  was  brought  from  Guatemala ; but  its  habits  and  manners  are  at  present  unknown. 
O.  Derbianus  G.  R.  Gray. 
* It  was  in  1786  that  this  gemus  was  published  hy  Merrem  (Av.  rar.  leones  et  Descr.  fasc.  2.  p.40.)  ; Salpiza  (1832)  of  Wader  mav 
be  consKiered  as  synonymous  with  it.  ' -r  \ may 
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