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NOTES ON THE BIOLOGY AND SONG OF THE RED-LEGGED SERIEMA (CARIAMA CRISTATA)

Very little, even of an anecdotal nature, has been written on the two living seriemas, the Black-legged or Burmeister's Seriema (Chunga burmeisteri), and the Red-legged, or Crested Seriema (Cariama cristata) (Blake 1977). Yet they are not rare in zoological collections and are fairly common in many areas of South America south of the Amazon. The Redlegged Seriema is found in grasslands and open scrub of central and eastern Brazil from the state of Ceara west to Mato Grosso State and

K. Redford | G. Peters

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