1. CRAX. 477 



c, d. 2 acl- sJf- S- America, Feb. ' Salvin-Godman Coll. 



e, /". cJ id. et $ vix Rio do Caba^al, Brazil, Salvin-Godnian Coll. 

 ad. sk. Aug. (Natterer). 



3. Crax pinima. 



Crax pinima, Naitm-er, MS., v. Pelz. Oni. Bras. pp. 287, 341 (1870) 

 [District of Para] ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 253 (1870j; Sclat. 8f 

 Salrin, P. Z S. 1870, p. 518. 



Crax incoinmoda *, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 690 ; id. Trans. Z. S. ix. 

 p. 281, pi. xlix. (1875), x. p. 544, pi. xciii. (1879). 



Adult male. At present unknown. 



Adult female. Differs chiefly from the female of C. fasciolata in 

 having the Mliole of the breast, sides, and thighs black, narrowly 

 barred with whitish buff, the belly -whitish butt', and the tail-feathers 

 uniform black, though the middle pair are irregularly marked with 

 white in a younger example. I have little doubt that the three 

 specimens before me all belong to one and the same species, but 

 they differ consideral)ly one from another in plumage, though the 

 differences are probably due to age. In the type the feathers of 

 the crest are black, with a narrow white band across the middle 

 third ; the primaries are black, irregularly and narrowly barred with 

 white on both webs, and the fore part, of the neck and chest are 

 uniform black. 



In a second and apponnth/ less mature specimen there are two 

 white bands across the first and second third of each of the crest- 

 feathers ; the primaries are equally barred with rufous buff and 

 black ; the fore part of the neck is barred with white, and the chest 

 shows traces of the same colour ; while tlie lower parts of the breast 

 are buff, barred with l)lack, and the middle tail-feathers are narrowly 

 and irregularly barred with white. 



In the third e.rample, which lived for more than four years in the 

 Zoological Society's Gardens, either the natural changes in plumage 

 have not taken place in confinement, or the specimen represents a 

 distinct species ; the feathers of the crest resemble those of C. fascio- 

 lata, being white, widely tipped Mith black, and black at the base ; 

 the i)rimaries (except the outer one) have the inner web uniform 

 black ; the forepart of the neck and chest are regularly barred with 

 white, and the middle of the breast is buff barred with black, as in 

 the second example described above. Total length 34"5 iuches, 

 wing 15'2, tail 13-5, tarsus 4-1. 



llah. South America, District of Para and ? U.S. of Colombia. 



a. $ ad. sk. S. America, July. Salvin-Godman Coll. (Type 



of C. incommoda, Scl.) 



* This species is based on the specimen obtained from the Jardin d'Acclima- 

 tntion in 1870, and referred to V. pinima by Srlnfer and Salvin in the P. Z. S. 

 1870, p. 518. Sclater afterwards consiJerpd tliis bird distinct, and described it 

 unrlor tlie name of (.'. i/wommoda ; but after comparing it carefully with the 

 original description of ('. pinima, v. Pelz., I am convinced that the original 

 identification was correct. 



