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128 BULLETIN 133, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
In the Anguete language the species is known as allat.
Bangs and Penard ^° have indicated that the limpkin from south-
ern South America differs from that of northern localities in larger
size, a contention that is upheld by the skins available in the National
Museum. The male that I secured west of Puerto Pinasco has the
following measurements: Wing, 355; tail, 170; culmen, 127; tarsus,
144 mm. The wing measurements given by Bangs and Penard for
males of the southern form range from 341 to 343, so that this bird
is of maximum size.
For a recent revision of the forms of Aramus the reader is re-
ferred to a paper by Peters (Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. :
5, Jan. 30, 1925, pp. 141-144).
Family CARIAMIDAE
CARIAMA CRISTATA (Linnaeus)
vol.
Palamadea cristata Linnaeus, Sy.st. Nat., ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 232.
(Brazil.)
On September 13, 1920, near the ranch at Kilometer 80, west of
Puerto Pinasco, Paraguay, one of these strange birds ran out in
front of my horse as I rode up over the steep bank of a small stream,
but traveled on through the brush so rapidly that I did not get a
shot at it.
CHUNGA BURMEISTERI (Hartlaub)
Dicholophus hurmeisteri Haetlaub, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1860, p. 335.
(Tucuman and Catamarca, Argentina.)
Near Tapia, Tucuman, from April 6 to 13, 1921, these birds were
fairly common, but were so wary that no specimens were secured.
Their high-pitched yelping calls were heard daily from low hilltops
where the forest was rather open, but as noiseless approach through
the thorny scrub was impossible the birds invariably took alarm and
ran away before I was within sight or range of them. Once or twice
I had a glimpse of one down some long opening in the brush, but had
no opportunity for closer approach. An immature Chuna was
examined that had been killed by a hunter who refused to part
with it.
The generic name Ckunga, ordinarily attributed to Eeichenbach,^^
has been assigned correctly by Waterhouse ^^ to Hartlaub.^^* There
is some question as to whether the date of publication of Reichen-
bach's paper was 1860 or 1861, but as Reichenbach on page 160 refers
^0 Notes on a coUection of Surinam Birds, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 62, April,
1918, p. 42.
"Vollst. Naturg. Tauben, 1861 (?), p. 159.
"Ind. Gen. Avium, 1889, p. 45.
" Proc. Zool. Soc. London, August, 1860, p. 335.