Trumpeter

Description

"Psophia crepitans, the Agami, ranging from British Guiana to Amazonia, is a black bird with velvety plumage on the head and neck, and lax feathering below; a golden-green and violet sheen adorns the lower fore-neck, a rusty brown patch crosses the back and wing-coverts, the bare orbits are pinkish, the beak is greenish or greyish, and the legs are variously stated to be bright green or flesh coloured." A. H. Evans, 1900

Keywords

birds, chicken-like bird, fowl, Grey-winged Trumpeter, guineafowl-like bird, Psophia crepitans, Psophidae, Psophiidae, South American birds, threatened birds, threatened species, Trumpeter

Galleries

Birds: T-V

Source:

Evans, A. H. Birds (New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1900)

Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman