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Show 1870.] MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON THE CRACID.E. 529 Purpurascenti-nigra unicolor, subtus in ventre magis obscura : rostro et cum pedibus gula nuda rubris: long, tota 24, alee 9*5, caudee 10*5, tarsi 2*8. Fem. nigra, rufo frequentissime vermiculata : pectore fere immaculate Hab. Guatemala, Vera Paz, and Volcanoes of Agua and Fuego (Salvin). Mus. Brit., S.-G. Genus 4. PIPILE. T Penelope, Wagler, Isis, p. 1226 (1832) P. cumanensis. Pipile, Bp. C. R. xiii. p. 877 (1856) P. cumanensis. Clavis specierum. a. Caruncula gulari caerulea 1. P. cumanensis. b. Caruncula gulari rubra f plaga alari alba 2. P. jacutinga. l.alis nigris, albo striatis 3. P. cujubi. 1. PIPILE CUMANENSIS. Crax cumanensis, Jacquin, Beytr. t. 10, p. 25 (1784). Crax pipile, Jacquin, ibid. t. 11, p. 26. Penelope cumanensis, Gm. S. N . i. p. 734; Wagl. Isis, 1830, p. 1109; Leotaud, Ois. de Trin. p. 383; Pelzeln, Sitz. Ak. Wien, xxxi. p. 330. Penelope pipile, Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. p. 76 et p. 694 ; Cab. in Schomb. Guian. iii. p. 745; Gray, Knowsley Menag. ii. t. 10; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1855, p. 163, 1858, p. 76. Pipile cumanensis, Bp. C. R. xiii. p. 877; Reichenb. Tauben, p. 154; Sclat. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 598. Pipile nattereri, Reichenb. Tauben, p. 154. Penelope nattereri, Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. p. 283. Penelope jacquinii, G. R. Gray, List of Gallinee, p. 8. Penelope grayi, Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. p. 284. Nigra, eeneo-nitens : pileo toto cum fronte albis, scapis plumarum angustissime nigris : tectricum alarium et pectoris plumarum marginibus cum plaga magna alari albis : genis omnino nudis et cum caruncula gulari cceruleis: long, tota 27, alee 13, caudce 11, tarsi 2*5. Hab. British Guiana (Schomb.) ; Venezuela (Beauperthuy in Mus. Par.) ; Trinidad (Leotaud); Bogota (Mus. S.-G.) ; Mato- Grosso, Upper Amazon, and Rio Negro (Natt.) ; Eastern Peru, Cosnipata valley (Whitely); Bolivia (D'Orb. in Mus. Pari); Rio Napo (Verreaux). Mus. Brit., Paris., Vindob., S.-G. The specimen in the British Museum distinguished by Mr. Gray as P. jacquinii (said to be from Peru) seems to us to be hardly separable from the present species. The shafts of the head-feathers are dark, and more distinctly marked; the white of the head extends rather further down the neck, and there is rather more white on the larger wing-coverts, than in the specimens assigned in the British |
