383. CARIAMA CRISTATA (Linn.). (CRESTED CARIAMA.) +La Saria+, _Azara, Apunt._ iii. p. 101 (Paraguay). +Dicholophus cristatus+, _Burm. Syst. Ueb. Vög. Brasil._ iii. p. 401; _id. Abh. nat. Ges. Halle_, i. p. 11 (1854). +Cariama cristata+, _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 141. _Description._--Plumage yellowish grey, with numerous narrow darker and lighter cross bands; lower belly not banded; wings and tail blackish brown, with broad white cross bands; breast with pale shaft-stripes: front crested; bill and feet reddish: whole length 32·0 inches, wing 14·0, tail 14·0. _Female_ similar, but more yellowish. _Hab._ Campos of S.E. Brazil and Paraguay. The Crested Cariama is a native of the Campos of the interior of Brazil, where it is well known as the "_Seriema_." Hence it extends into the open districts of Paraguay, and, it is said, into the adjoining parts of the Argentine Republic, though we are not able at present to give any exact authority for this statement. The Cariama lives on the ground among the high grasses of the Campos, where the traveller frequently hears its loud screaming cry as he rides along the tracks. It feeds principally upon insects and caterpillars, but also eats berries and fleshy fruits, and, it is said, snakes and other reptiles. It breeds in low bushes; and lays two roundish, spotted eggs, which in colour somewhat resemble those of the Crakes and Rails. This bird is often brought alive to Europe, and examples may always be seen in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London. Here they have paired and nested on more than one occasion, but have not succeeded in rearing their young. The frontispiece to the first volume of this work, which represents the Crested Cariama, is taken from one of these captive birds. 384. CHUNGA BURMEISTERI (Hartl.). (BURMEISTER'S CARIAMA.) +Dicholophus burmeisteri+, _Hartl. P. Z. S._ 1860, p. 335; _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii. p. 506 (Rioja, Catamarca, Tucuman). +Chunga burmeisteri+, _Scl. P. Z. S._ 1870, p. 666, pl. xxxvi.; _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 141. +Cariama burmeisteri+, _Salvin, Ibis_, 1880, p. 364 (Tucuman). _Description._--A very slight frontal crest; plumage cinereous, the feathers crossed by very narrow bands of whitish and black; lores and long superciliary stripe white: beneath paler on the chest; lower belly and crissum fulvous white; wings brownish black, beneath with broad blackish bars; tail like the back, but with two broad black subterminal cross bands, except on the two middle rectrices; bill and feet black: whole length 28·0 inches, wing 12·0, tail 14·0. _Female_ similar. _Hab._ Northern Argentina.