. A hand-book to the game-birds . he head dark brozvn, as well as by its much smaller size. Totallength, 17 inches; wing, 6-8; tail, 8-2; tarsus, ig; middletoe and claw, 1*8. Adult Female.—Probably similar to the male; but no femalespecimens in which the sex has been properly ascertained havebeen examined by me. Range.—North-east of South America. Province of Maranhao,and the vicinity of Para. b^. Outer tail-feathers ivith the basal half or f?iore dark^ a?id theremainder chesttiut. in. THE RUFOUS-HEADED GUAN. ORTALIS RUFICEPS. Penelope ruficeps^ Wagler, Isis, 1830, p. 1111. Ortalida riifceps^\
. A hand-book to the game-birds . he head dark brozvn, as well as by its much smaller size. Totallength, 17 inches; wing, 6-8; tail, 8-2; tarsus, ig; middletoe and claw, 1*8. Adult Female.—Probably similar to the male; but no femalespecimens in which the sex has been properly ascertained havebeen examined by me. Range.—North-east of South America. Province of Maranhao,and the vicinity of Para. b^. Outer tail-feathers ivith the basal half or f?iore dark^ a?id theremainder chesttiut. in. THE RUFOUS-HEADED GUAN. ORTALIS RUFICEPS. Penelope ruficeps^ Wagler, Isis, 1830, p. 1111. Ortalida riifceps^\N3.^Qr, Isis, 1832, p. 1227. Ortalis riificeps, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 506 (1893).Adidt.—Differs from the three following species of this groupin having the top of the head riifous-chest7iiit; from O. mot motit is at once distinguished by having the outer tail-feathersblackish, glossed with green and tipped with chestnut, as Total length, 16-25 inches; tail 7-8. Range.—Brazil. PLATE XXXIX. WAGLERS GUAN. THE GUANS. IV. WAGLER S GUAN. ORTALIS WAGLERI. 237 Ortalida wagleri^ G. R. Gray, List Gallinae Brit. Mus. p. 12 (1867).0?talts wagleri^ Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 507 (1893). {Plate XXXIX.) Adult Male and Female.—Top of the head brownish-blacJ\shading into dark grey on the nape ; eyebrow-stripes, featherson the sides of the head and down the middle of the throatpaler grey; breast and rest of under-parts chest?mt; four outerpairs of tail-feathers dark bluish-green, widely tipped with darkchestnut. Total length, 25-5 inches; wing, 9-5; tail, io5 ;tarsus, 3; middle toe and claw, 3. Range.—Western Mexico; Sinaloa and the Territory ofTepic. V. JARDINEs GUAN. ORTALIS RUFICAUDA. Ortalida ruficaiida^ Jardine, Ann. Mag. N. H. xx. p. 374 (1847); id. Contr. Orn. 1841, p. 16, pi. [structure],Ortalida bro?izina, G. R. Grny, List Gallin?e Biit. Mus. p. 11 (1867).Ortalis ruficauda^ Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 507 (189
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