POULTRY. 



CURASSOWS AND GUANS. 



EAVING the pigeons, we now come to the large and important order of birds, 

 termed scientifically the GallinaB, and, more popularly, the Poultry. Sometimes 

 they are termed Rasores, or scrapers, from their habit of scraping up the ground 

 in search of food. To this order belong our domestic poultry, the grouse, par- 

 tridges, and quails, the turkeys, pheasants, and many other useful and interesting 

 birds. In almost every instance the GallinaB are handsome birds, and interesting in 

 their habits, but as their number is legion, and our space is rapidly diminishing, 



we must content ourselves with such species as afford the best types of the order to which 



they belong. 



CRESTED CDEASSOW. Crax alector. 



OUR first example of these birds is the CRESTED CUEASSOW, the representative of the 

 genus Crax, in which are to be found a number of truly splendid birds. All the Curassow* 

 are natives of tropical America, and are found almost wholly in the forests. 



