MELEAGRHL® — THE TURKEYS. 
Genus BTARNCENAB, Bonaparte. (Page 105.) 
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S. cyanocephala. Above olivaceous-chocolate ; beneath red ; crown blue ; chin and 
throat black, bordered below by white ; a white line from chin under the eye to the 
occiput ; the side of head above this, and forehead, black. Bill blue ; carmine at base. 
Legs carmine. Iris brown. Length, 10.70; wing, 5.40 ; tail, 4.35. Hob. West Indies; 
very occasional in Keys of South Florida. {Blue-headed Pigeon.) 
Family CRACIDiE. — The Curassows. 
Char. Body large, but rather slender ; bill more or less arched ; tail lengthened ; legs 
long, robust, without any spur. Toes moderate, slender, the hinder scarcely elevated. 
Naked spaces frequently occurring, on the head and throat. 
Penelopinae. Upper mandible broader than high ; culmen depressed. Top of head 
covered with feathers ; space between the nostrils naked ; nostrils exposed. 
Genus ORTALIDA, Merrem. 
No fold of skin along central line of throat, which, however, is naked, with a central 
stripe of bristly feathers. Outer quills entire, not emarginated. Nest usually in a hole 
scratched in the ground and lined with leaves ; eggs six to eight, yellowish-white, with 
a granulated shell. Habits arboreal. 
O. vetula, var. maccalli. Body above dark greenish-yellow, tinged with 
olive. Head and upper part of neck plumbeous. Tail-feathers lustrous 
green, all tipped with white except the middle one. Feathers along the 
middle of the throat black ; outer edge of primaries tinged with gray. Eyes 
brown. Bill and feet lead-colored. Length, 23.50 ; wing, 8.50 ; tail, 11.00. 
Hab. Yalley of the Rio Grande, and southward to Guatemala. ( Cha - 
calaca ; Texas Guan.) 
Family MELEAGRIDiE. — The Turkeys. JJJ 
Char. Bill moderate ; the nasal fossae bare. Head and neck without feathers, but 
with scattered hairs, and more or less carunculated. An extensible fleshy process on the 
forehead, but no development of the bone. Tarsus armed with spurs in the male. Hind 
toe elevated. Tail nearly as long as the wing, truncate, of more than twelve feathers. 
“ Genus MELEAGRXB, Linnaeus. JJJ! 
Gen. Char. Legs with transverse scutellas before and behind ; reticulated laterally. 
Tarsi with spurs. Tail rounded, rather long, usually of eighteen feathers. Forehead 
with a depending fleshy cone. Head and the upper half of the neck without feathers. 
Breast of male in most species with a long tuft of bristles. Eggs cream-color, quite 
uniformly spotted with brown. 
M. gallopavo. Head livid blue, legs red, general color copper-bronze, with 
copper and green reflections, each feather with a velvet-black margin ; all the 
quill! brown, closely barred with white. Tail-feathers chestnut, narrowly 
barred with black ; the tip with a very broad subterminal black bar. Bill and 
