Argentine Ornithology, Volume 2 (of 2): A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic.Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
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Argentine Ornithology, Volume 2 (of 2): A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic.
Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
Birds -- Argentina
_Description._--Dark bronzy green; lower back and abdomen
chocolate-brown; feathers of upper back, wing-coverts, and body
beneath down to the middle of the belly margined with white;
feathers of front part of head edged with silvery white: whole
length 25·0 inches, wing 11·5, tail 12·0. _Female_ similar.
_Hab._ Paraguay, Northern Argentina, and Bolivia.
This Guan was first made known to us as an inhabitant of Paraguay by
Azara, who described it in his 'Apuntamientos'[9] under the name of
"El Yacúhú" or "_Pavo del Monte_" (Wood-Turkey) of the Spaniards. The
examination of skins of it obtained by Capt. J. T. Page, of the U.S.
Navy, during his expedition up the Rio Paraguay and Rio Vermejo, enabled
Messrs. Salvin and Sclater to make this identification.
[9] Vol. iii. p. 72, no. 335.
In Entrerios, Mr. Barrows tells us, this species is limited to the
borders and islands of the River Uruguay, where in heavy growths of
timber it is not uncommon, though rarely seen. Here it builds a large
nest in the trees and lays white eggs.
It is probable that the Guan of Tucuman called by Dr. Burmeister
_Penelope boliviana_ and that of Catamarca referred by White to _P.
pileata_ likewise belong to this species.
367. PIPILE CUMANENSIS (Jacq.).
(WHITE-HEADED GUAN.)
+Penelope pipile+, _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii. p. 499 (Tucuman).
+Pipile cumanensis+, _Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S._ 1870, p. 529;
_Burm. P. Z. S._ 1871, p. 702 (Tucuman).
_Description._--Bronzy black; whole top of the head white, with
narrow black shaft-stripes; wing-coverts and breast-feathers edged
with white; a large blotch on the wing white; naked cheeks and
throat-caruncle blue: whole length 27·0 inches, wing 13·0, tail
11·0. _Female_ similar.
_Hab._ South America from Venezuela to Northern Argentina.
Dr. Burmeister tells us that this Guan, which is widely extended in
South America, occurs in the forests of Tucuman.
368. ORTALIS CANICOLLIS, Wagl.
(HOARY-NECKED GUAN.)
+Penelope canicollis+, _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii, p. 499. +Ortalida
canicollis+, _Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S._ 1870, p. 534; _iid. Nomencl._
p. 136; _Burm. P. Z. S._ 1871, p. 701. +Ortalis canicollis+,
_Salvin, Ibis_, 1880, p. 303 (Tucuman). +Ortalida guttata+,
_White, P. Z. S._ 1882, p. 627 (Salta)?
_Description._--Above bronzy brown; top of head cinereous: beneath
more ochraceous; throat and breast washed with bronzy; neck and
breast slightly spotted with greyish; under wing-coverts, flanks,
and crissum chestnut; tail bronzy green, five outer rectrices
broadly tipped with chestnut; bill yellowish; feet pale hazel: whole
length 22·0 inches, wing 9·8, tail 10·3. _Female_ similar.
_Hab._ Paraguay and Northern Argentina.
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