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Show 1870.] MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON THE CRACIDAE. 507 tomentosa, and Crax globulosa) and five species of Penelopince (viz. P. jacucaca, P. jacupeba, Pipile jacutinga, Ortalida guttata and 0. araucuan) are due to the researches of his expedition. (1828.) Lesson, in the second volume of his 'Manuel d'Orni-thologie,' describes two new species of Guans discovered by Goudot, one of the travelling naturalists of the Jardin des Plantes, in tbe interior of N e w Granada. These are Penelope aburri (= Aburria carunculata) and Ortalidagoudoti (= Chamcepetesgoudoti). Lesson likewise establishes Crax albini, which probably = C. globicera $ . (1830.) Wagler publishes a concise but very important paper in the ' Isis,' bis " Revisio generis Penelope," and describes eighteen species, dividing them into three sections, A, B, & C, corresponding exactly to the genera Pipile, Penelope, and Ortalida. His excellent diagnoses materially assist us in identifying Spix's species. Wagler describes six species as new from the specimens in the Berlin and Munich museums, upon which he founded his observations. These new species are P. pileata, P. purpurascens, P. albiventris, P. ruficeps, P. vetula, and P. poliocephala. The last four belong to the genus Ortalida. He also founds his P. canicollis upon the "Yacu-caraguata" of Azara, of which, however, he had not seen specimens. The whole of these seven Waglerian species are valid; and this paper may be regarded as the earliest scientific article (in a modern sense) upon this subject. (1831.) Yarrell, at a meeting of this Society, describes the trachea of Crax yarrelli (i.e. Crax carunculata). (1832.) Wagler, in an article on new genera and species of Mammals and Birds, published in the ' Isis,' institutes two new genera of Cracidee, viz. Salpiza and Chamcepetes. As regards Salpiza, it seems that the group thus designated ought to be retained as typical Penelope, because Merrem's Penelope jacupema certainly belongs to it; so that Wagler's Penelope corresponds to what we call (following Reichenbach) Pipile, and Wagler's Salpiza to our Penelope. (1833.) Prince Max of Neuwied, in his well-known 'Beitrage zur Naturgeschichte von Brasilien,' describes the four species of Cracidee that he met with in the wood-region of South-eastern Brazil, in his usual full and accurate manner. These were (I) Crax rubrirostris ( = C. carunculata), (2) Penelope superciliaris, (3) Penelope leucoptera (= Pipile jacutinga), (4) Penelope araucuan ( = Ortalida albiventris). (1835.) Bennett, in the second volume of the 'Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society,' gives articles with woodcut illustrations on the following species of this group :- Mr. Bennett's names. (Of this Synopsis.) Page 9. Crested Curassow = Crax alector. 65. Galeated Curassow = Pauxi galeata. 129. Razor-billed Curassow = Mitua tuberosa. 131. Guan = Penelope cristata. 325. Red Curassow = Crax globicera £ • 227. Red-knobbed Curassow = Crax carunculata c3 . |
