1 . CRAX. 



479 



chest mostly black glossed with green, and washed or margined 

 with rufous ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts deep 

 brownish chestnut, indistinctly mottled with black ; scapulars and 

 outer secondaries like the feathers of the mantle, but the extremities 

 are brighter rufous and mottled with black : quills and wing-coverts 

 chestnut, thickly mottled with black, especially on the inner 

 webs of the primaries and on the secondaries and their coverts ; 

 the outer webs of the secondaries are usually more or less irregularly 

 barred with white, though these markings disappear with age ; 

 breast dark chestnut, shading into cinnamon on the lower breast, 

 belly, thighs, and under tail-coverts : tail entirely black, glossed 

 with green in the most adult examples ; in the majority of specimens, 

 however, the median tail-feathers are mottled with chestnut and 

 retain traces of the yellowish-white markings of immaturity. Base 

 of both mandibles dark greenish brown, terminal part yellowish ; legs 

 and feet dull jiinkish grey. Total length 29 inches, wing 14, 

 tail 12, tarsus 4"4. 



In yoiuKjer female specimens the crest-feathers are black with 

 several bars of white, while in the youngest examples the feathers 

 are mostly wliite tipped with black ; the wings and tail are largely 

 marked with white lines and irregular bands, while the chest, breast, 

 and thighs are barred with blackish or dark brown. 



Hah. Central America, ranging from Western Mexico to Honduras 

 and to Cozumel Island. 



a, b. (S ad. sk. Sierra Madre, above Ciudad Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Victoria, TamauHpas, Mexico 



(IT'. B. liichardvm). 

 Mizniitla. \'era Cruz, Oct. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Fcrrari-Verez). 

 CbimHla])a,'rt'huai)tepec, March Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( W. B. Bicli(irdson). 

 Nortliern Yucatan [G. F. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Guumer). 

 Cozumel Is., Yucatan, May Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{G. F. (rauDier). 

 G uateiuala. Purchased of M. Verreaux. 



c. 5 ad. sk. 



d. 2 imiu. .*k. 

 «,/• 6 2 ad. sk. 

 ff-i. 2 inim. sk. 



k, I. 2 fid. et 



imm. sk. 

 m-r. c? 2 ad. et 



vix ad. sk. 

 8, t. 2 ad. St. 

 u, V. Skeletons. 



Savana Grande, Guatemala, 



Nov. (O. S.) 

 [S. America.] 



Salvin-Godman and 



Tweeddale Colls. 

 Purchased. 

 Zool. Soc. Coll. 



5. Crax panaiuensis. 



? The Curasow Cock and Hen, Albm, Xat. Hist. B. ii. p. 2t>, pis. 31, 

 ;52(1738). 



Crax globicera, Lath, (nee Linn.) Ind. Orn. iv. p. 624 (1790) [$]; 

 Later. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii! p. 12 (lt*67) [U.S. ColombiaJ, ix. 

 p. 139 (18t!9") [San Jo.«^, Costa Rica]; Frantzw, J. f. O. 1869, 

 p. 373 [Costa Kica] ; Sclat. S( Salvin, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 513 [part., 

 Costa Kica and ranama] ; Sclat. Trans. Z. S. ix. p. 274 (1875) 

 [part.] ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 42 [Costa Kica] ; Sclat. Trans. 



