Sub-fam. 2. _Penelopinae._–The fifteen species of _Penelope_ are brown or olive-green, more or less varied with chestnut and rufous, or washed with purple or bronze; the feathers, moreover, have often whitish margins, the head in _P. pileata_, and the outer primaries in _P. albipennis_ becoming almost white. The wattled throat is generally feathered in _P._ (_Stegnolaema_) _montagnii_, but naked elsewhere, the colour being given as carmine in _P. cristata_, where the feet are red. The orbits are also bare, the crest is moderate, and the metatarsus in some cases is partly feathered. Two members of the genus inhabit Central America. _P. obscura_, the Pavo del Monte, alone reaches Northern Argentina, where _Crax fasciolata_, _Pipile cumanensis_, and _Ortalis canicollis_, the Charata, also represent the Family. _Penelopina nigra_, of the Guatemalan highlands, is greenish-black, barred and mottled with brown and buff in the female; the naked orbits are purplish, the bare throat, large wattle, bill and feet red. _Ortalis_ contains about seventeen forms, some hardly worthy of specific rank, of which five occur from South to Central America and one–_O. vetula_, the Chiacalaca–extends to Texas. _O. ruficauda_ is found in Tobago and the Grenadines. The coloration is brown or olive, with little or no metallic gloss, but relieved by chestnut, rufous and grey; the breast and belly being occasionally white or buff, the naked orbits and sides of the throat apparently reddish, and the feet pinkish, grey, or blue. _Pipile cumanensis_, of South America northwards from Bolivia and Brazil, with Trinidad, is greenish-black; a white crest of pointed feathers reaches the sides of the neck, some white shews on the wings and chest; the cere, naked orbits, lores, throat and wattle are blue, the feet red. _P. jacutinga_ of South-East Brazil and Paraguay has a purplish gloss above, and a red wattle; _P. cujubi_ of the Lower Amazons a brown crest margined with white. _Aburria carunculata_ of Colombia and Ecuador is greenish-black, with a scantily-feathered throat and long thin wattle. _Chamaepetes {198}goudoti_, of the same countries and Peru, is bronzy-brown with greyish head and rufous under parts; the Costa Rican and Veraguan _C. unicolor_ being nearly uniform greenish-black. In both these genera the orbits are more or less naked. Sub-fam. 3. _Oreophasinae._–_Oreophasis derbianus_, the splendid Faisan of the Volcan de Fuego in Guatemala, is greenish-black with dense velvety plumage extending from the forehead to the nostrils; the white lower parts become brownish at the sides and vent, and shew dark streaks; a white band crosses the tail; and a red cellular casque covered with hair-like feathers surmounts the head. The bill is pale yellow, the feet are vermilion.