. A dictionary of birds . //. Seriema. Avhile Linn?eus regarded it as a second species of Palamedea(Screamer, p. 819), under the name of P. crisiata, Englishedin 1785 by Latham {Gen. Synops. v, p, 20) the CrestedScreamer,—an appellation, as already observed, since transferredto a wholly different bird. Nothing more seems to have beenknown of it in Europe till 1803, when Azara published at Madridhis observations on the birds of Paraguay {Apuntamientos, No. 340),wherein he gave an account of it under the name of Saria, whichit bore among the Guaranis,—that of Cariama being applied toit by the Po

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. A dictionary of birds . //. Seriema. Avhile Linn?eus regarded it as a second species of Palamedea(Screamer, p. 819), under the name of P. crisiata, Englishedin 1785 by Latham {Gen. Synops. v, p, 20) the CrestedScreamer,—an appellation, as already observed, since transferredto a wholly different bird. Nothing more seems to have beenknown of it in Europe till 1803, when Azara published at Madridhis observations on the birds of Paraguay {Apuntamientos, No. 340),wherein he gave an account of it under the name of Saria, whichit bore among the Guaranis,—that of Cariama being applied toit by the Portuguese settlers, and both expressive of its It was not, however, until 1809 that this very remarkable ^ In this word the initial C, as is usual in Portuguese, is pronounced soft,and the accent laid upon the last syllable. ^ Yet Forbes states {This, 1881, p. 358) that Seriema comes from Siri, adiminutive of Indian extraction, and Ema, the Portuguese name for the Rhea((/. Emeu, p. 212, ), the whole thu

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