Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
31 August 1795
Notes:
Because most of Peale’s South American material came from French Guiana, the identity of his guan is more likely P. marail than the visually similar P. purpurascens, which is restricted in South America to parts of southern Venezuela and eastern Ecuador.
Specimen Type:
Live (later taxidermied)
Current Common Name:
Marail Guan
Current Scientific Name
Cracidae | Penelope marail
