GUAN, the name applied to members of the Penelopinae, closely allied to the Cracinae or curassows. They comprise a num ber of genera of which Penelope and Ortalis are the largest. Nearly all have a bare throat, from which, in many forms, hangs a wattle. Save for a few which extend to Central and North America and the Antilles, the guans are confined to the South American con tinent. Like curassows, guans are in great measure of arboreal habit. They readily become tame, but the cases in which they have been induced to breed in confinement are few.