1. CRAX. 481 



tail-coverts are buff, somewhat indistinctly barred with black. 

 These specimens arc so different from the iemales oi C. fasciolata 

 that I have no hesitation in regarding them as distinct, especially 

 as in the genus Cra.v one looks to the females rather than to the 

 males for distinctive specific characters. Total length 32 inches, 

 wing 13'(), tail 12*7, tarsus 3'8. 



a, b. $ ad. sk. 8. America. Purchased. 



(Types of the species.) 



7. Crax carunculata. 



Wattled Curassow, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. viii. p. lo5 (1823). 



Crax carunculata, Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 44, 690 (1815) ; Steph. 



in Shaio's Gen. Zool. xi. p. 170 (1819); Sclat. %■ Salvui, P. Z. S. 



1870, p. 517; Grat/, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 254 (1870); Sclat. Trans. 



Z. S. ix. p. 279 (1875). 

 Crax rubrirostris, <S)j/,r, Aik Bras. ii. p. 51, pi. Ixvii. (1825) [Rio to 



R^ihia] ; Ma.i: Bei'tr. Nat. Bras. iv. Abth. ii. p. 528 (1833) [S.E. 



Brazil]. 

 Crax varrellii, ? Bennett, Gard. Si Menag. ii. p. 227 (1831) [Rio 



Manmon] ; Yarrell, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 33; Jard. <§■ Selb. III. Om. 



n. s. pi. vi. (1836) ; Swains. An. in Mcnag. p. 188 (1837). 

 Crax blumenbachii, Burmeister, Sgst. Uebers. iii. p. 345 (1856) 



[Ivio de Janeiro to Bahia]. 

 Cra.x globulosa. Gray, List Gallinee Brit. Mus. p. 16 (1867). 



Adult male. Plumage similar to that of C. glohicera, but the lores 

 are naked. A large swollen process on the base of the culmen and 

 a wattle on each side of the base of the lower mandible scarlet ; the 

 tip of the beak blackish horn, and the naked skin round the eye 

 dark blue ; legs and feet pinkish horn-colour. Total length '62 

 inches, wing 14-8, tail Vi-o, tarsus 4. 



AduJt female. Differs from the male in having the belly, flanks, 

 and under tail-coverts rufous buff; feathers of the crest indistinctly 

 barred with white ; and the swollen process on the culmen and 

 caruncles on the base of the lower mandible absent ; soft parts 

 coloured as in the male. Total length 32 inches, wing 14-2, tail 

 11-9, tarsus 3-9. 



Hah. S.E. Brazil : Rio de Janeiro to Bahia *. 



a, b. (S ad. sk. et st. S. America. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



c. 9 ad. sk. Tropical America,June. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. c? ad. sk. S.E. Brazil, Jan. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



e. (J ad. sk. Bahia, Brazil. Sudbury Museum [P.]. 

 f-h. Skeletons. 



* Under the name of Crax ghhidosa, Spix, Sclater and Salvin distinguish 

 the birds of the Upper Aiuazous from C. carunctdata, Tenira., which is found 

 in S.E. Brazil. The only difference is, tliat in the male of the latter the 

 swollen process on the base of the culmen and the wattles on the base of the 

 lower mandible are pale yellow instead of retl. It appears from what Sclater 

 says in his last remarks in the Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 279 that he has never 

 seen living specimens of C. globulosa, though several examples of C. carunctdata 

 have been kept from time to time in the Zoological Gardens. I am indinetl to 

 believe that t'. globulosa is merely a sjnionym of C. carunculata, and that the 

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