480 CEACiDj;. 



Z. S. X. p. 543, pi. Ixxxix. (1879) ; Richmond, P. U.S. Nat. Mm. 



xvi. p. 524 (1893) [Rio Escondido, Nicaragua, and Rio Frio, 



Costa Rica]. 

 Crax rubra, Steph. (nee Linn.) in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xi. p. 168, 



pi. ix. (1819); Lawr. Attn. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 301 (1862) [U.S. 



Colombia]. 

 Red Curassow, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. viii. p. 152, pi. 123 (1823). 

 Crax alberti, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 246, pis. xxvii. & xxviii. 



[part. $]. 



Adult male. Similar in plumage to the male of C. globicera, but 

 the tail has a slight white margin, indicating an approach to 

 C. daubentoni. Possibly the coloration of the soft part is different. 

 Total length 34-o inches, wing 14-6, tail 13"3, tarsus 4-2. 



Adidt female. Differs from the female of C. glohicera in having 

 no white markings on the wings, and the feathers of the tail 

 regularly barred with yellowish white, these bars being equally 

 conspicuous on the under surface of the feathers ; the back of the 

 neck, mantle, and chest are rufous-chestnut, almost devoid of black 

 in the oldest example, while the wing-coverts and secondaries are 

 uniform chestnut without any of the black bars so conspicuous in 

 younger specimens, and the pale bars on the tail are wide and well- 

 defined. Total length 33-3 inches, wing 14-4, tail 13, tarsus 4-6. 



A somewhat younger example resembles the above, but the black 

 markings on the outer secondaries are still present, although fewer in 

 number, while the pale bars across the tail are rather less marked. 



In still yoH)ir/er examples, the back of the neck, mantle, and 

 chest are mostly black as in the male, the wing-coverts and second- 

 aries are thickly mottled with black, and the pale bars on the tail- 

 feathers are narrower and less defined. 



Hah. Southern Nicaragua and Costa Rica to the United States of 

 Colombia. 



a. 2 vix ad. sk. Valza, Costa Rica, Feb. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(J. Carmiol). 



h. $ vix ad. sk. Valza, Costa Rica, Feb. J. Carmiol, Esq. [C.]. 



c. cj ad. sk. Panama. J. McLyaunan, Esq. [C.]. 



d, e. cJ $ ad. sk. Lion Hill, Panama (/. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



McLeannan). 

 f. $ ad. sk. South America. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



6. Crax grayi. 



Among the specimens mentioned by Gray in his List of the 

 Gallinse in the Brit. Mus. (1 867) are two females (c & (/) from 

 S. America, which he considered as doubtful varieties of his Crax 

 sclateri ( = C. fasciolata, Spix). These two specimens closely resemble 

 one another in plumage, but one has the lesser and median wing- 

 coverts almost devoid of black bars. Both specimens differ from the 

 female of C. fasciolata in having the white bars on the wings and 

 tail far wider, and about half the width of the black interspaces, 

 while the quills are equally and widely barred with black and 

 j-ellowish white ; the whole of the lower back, rump, and upper 



