478 CRACID^. 



b. 2 ad. sk, S. America, Dec. Salviu-Godman Coll. 



c. 2 vix ad. sk. [U.S. Colombia.] Purchased of M. Verreaux. 

 cl, e. ? Skeletons. [Guiana.] 



4. Crax gloMcera. 



? The Red Peruvian Hen, Albin, Nat. Hist. B. iii. p. 37, pi. 40 (1740). 

 The Curasso Bird, Edwards, Glean, ii. p. 181, pi. 295. fig. 1 (1760). 

 Le Hocco de Curassow, Briss. Orn. i. p. 300 (1760). 

 Le Hocco du Perou, Briss. Orn. i. p. 305 (1760) ; D'Aubent. PL 



Enl. ii. pi. 36 [no. 125]. 

 Crax globicera, Linn. S. N. i. p. 270 (1766) ; Gm. S. N. i. pt. ii. 



p. 736 (1788); Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 624 (1790) [d']; Bonn. 



Tabl. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 175 (1791) ; Sclat. P. Z. 8. 1860, p. 253; 



Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p. 311 [Honduras] ; Salvin, Ibi.'i, 1861, p. 143 



[Vera Paz] ; Sclat. ^ Sah-m, P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 513, 838 [part., 



Western Mexico to Honduras] ; Siimichrast , La Naturaleza, ii. 



p. 37 (1871) [Vera Cruz] ; Sclat. Trans. Z. S. ix. p. 274, pi. xl. 



(1875) [part.] ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 459 [Yucatan] : Salvin, 



Ibis, 1889, p. 378, 1890, p. 89 [Cozumel]. 

 Crax rubra, Linn. S. N. i. p. 270 (1766) ; Got. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 736 



(1788); Te7n77i.Piff. et Gall.m.^^.2l, 687 {1815); Bennett, Gard. 



Sr Menag. ii. p. 225 (1831). 

 Le Hocco, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. ii. p. 373, pis. xiii., xiv. (1771). 

 Crax alector. Lath. Lid. Orn. ii. p. 623 (1790) (femina); Sclat. ^ 



Salvi?!, Ibis, 1859, p. 223 ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 61 [Peten and 



Chilomo, Guatemala]. 

 Globose Curassow, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. viii. p. 154 (1823). 

 Red Curas.>ow, var. A, p. 153 [adult J], var. B, p. 154 [immature 



2 ], Lath. Gen. Hist. viii. (1823). 

 Crax blumenbachii, ? Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 50, pi. Ixiv. (1825) 



[Rio de Janeiro*]; Gray, List GallincB Brit. Mus. p. 15 (1867); 



id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 253 (;i870). 

 ? Crax albini. Less. Traite WOm. p. 484 (1831) ; Reichenh. Tauben, 



p. 135 (1862). 

 Crax temminckii, Tschudi, Faun. Per. p. 287 (1844-46) [Western 



Mexico] ; Bunneister, Si/st. Uebers. iii. p. 347 (1856). 

 Crax edwardsii, Reichenb. Tauben, p. 134 (1862). 

 Crax pseudalector, Reichenb. Tauben, p. 131, pi. 174. fig. 1516 (1862). 



Adult male. Whole of the plumage black glossed with dark 

 green, except the middle of the bellj', flanks, and under tail-coverts, 

 which are white ; wattle on the basal part of the ciilmen pale yellow ; 

 terminal part of both mandibles blackish horn ; legs and feet greyish 

 horn-colour. Total length 35 inches, wing 15-7, tail 14, tarsus 4-6, 



An immature wale has the wattle on the culmen rudimentary ; 

 the feathers of the chin, throat, and thighs blackish brown barred 

 with white; otherwise the plumage resembles that of the adult 

 male. 



Adult female. Feathers of the top of the head and crest black, 

 with a wide band of white across the middle third ; rest of the head, 

 chin, throat, and neck covered with short feathers barred with 

 black and white ; feathers of the back of the neck, mantle, and 



* The locality is no doubt erroneous. 



