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Show 524 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON THE CRACID*:. [June 9, This species is included by Schomburgk in his ' Fauna of British Guiana;' hut it is doubtful whether it really occurs so far north. 5. PENELOPE JACUPEBA. Penelope jacupeba, Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 54, t. 71. Penelope nigricapilla, Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. pp. 281, 341 (nee G. R. Gray). Penelope jacucaca, Gray, List of Gall. p. 8 (nee Spix). fEneo-viridis: doi'so inferiore et abdomine toto cupreo perfuso : dorsi superioris, alarum tectricum et corporis subtus ad imum pectus plumis albo utrinque marginatis: frontis et supercili-orumplumis argenteo marginatis : long, tota 30, alee 13*5, caudce 12*5, tarsi 3*3. Hab. Brazil, prov. San Paulo (Natt.); Rio (Mus. S.-G.) ; Para (Spix). Mus. Brit., Vindob., S.-G. Our characters of this species are from one of the specimens obtained by Natterer at Ytarare, and named by Herr v. Pelzeln P. nigricapilla. It is not, however, Mr. Gray's P. nigricapilla, but agrees perfectly with the specimen in the British Museum referred to P. jacucaca of Spix. At first we were inclined to accede to the latter determination, but have recently convinced ourselves that Spix's figure and description of P. jacucaca are more satisfactorily applicable to another bird, of which we have given an account above, and which is distinguishable from the present species by its smaller size and by the well-defined white superciliary band, bordered (as Wagler expressly states) by black below. On the other hand, Spix's figure and description of P. jacupeba are fairly applicable to the present bird, except as regards its larger size. But a second skin of an immature example in the collection of Salvin and Godman is considerably smaller than the Nattererian specimen above described, and seems to answer to Spix's bird in every respect; so that if we assume that Spix's type was also not adult (which his figure would seem to indicate), we bave a name provided for this species. W e may remark that Mr. G. R. Gray agrees with us in referring Spix's P. jacupeba to the present species, though in our opinion he has wrongly associated it with P. jacucaca oi the same author. Penelope jacupeba, as thus identified, is a fine large species of a general bronzy-green colour, which is somewhat tinged with rufescent on the rump and tail-coverts and still more so on the belly. The feathers of the whole top of the head are more or less edged with silvery grey, particularly on the front and over the eyes, but not so as to constitute a well-defined superciliary stripe ; the ear-coverts are black. The characteristic white edgings which are found in all the group are well-defined in this species on the upper back, wing-coverts, neck, and breast. The outer primaries are attenuated as in other species of this genus; the fifth, sixth, and seventh are about equal and longest. The nearest ally of P. jacupeba is P. obscura, |