. Bye-browed Guan {Penelope superciliaris). CHAPTER II. THE CRACID^E—PENELOPES (commonly Guan3). Difficulty of discriminating the species.—State in which the young are hatched. —Easily tamed.—Produce few young in a tame state.—Mode of distinguishing species.—Organ of voice.—Its efficiency.—The Cracidse as poultry.—Mr. Ben- nett's and Mr. Martin's hopes.—Causes of failure.—Have had a fair trial.— Curassow dinner.—Cracidae in Holland.—Temminck's expectations ; plausible but unfounded.—Determine on an experiment.—Unsuitability of South Ameri- can organisms to Great Britain.—Instances.—Few excepti
. Bye-browed Guan {Penelope superciliaris). CHAPTER II. THE CRACID^E—PENELOPES (commonly Guan3). Difficulty of discriminating the species.—State in which the young are hatched. —Easily tamed.—Produce few young in a tame state.—Mode of distinguishing species.—Organ of voice.—Its efficiency.—The Cracidse as poultry.—Mr. Ben- nett's and Mr. Martin's hopes.—Causes of failure.—Have had a fair trial.— Curassow dinner.—Cracidae in Holland.—Temminck's expectations ; plausible but unfounded.—Determine on an experiment.—Unsuitability of South Ameri- can organisms to Great Britain.—Instances.—Few exceptions.—The reversed seasons of the north and south hemispheres one cause.—Mr. Darwin's account.— Guans at the Surrey Gardens.—Their native habits and diet.—Our own mishaps. —Troublesome tameness of the birds.—Tricks and dangers.—Impudence and capriciousness.—Possible profitableness !—Narrative of a coadjutor.—His ill- success.—Our own.—Habits of the Eye-browed Guan.—Amount of success at Knowsley. The genus of birds now under consideration, which is composed of not a few species, and doubtless of more
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