1. CRAx. 483 



Adult yiiale. Similar to the male of C. ylgbicera, but distinguished 

 by having the tail-feathers tipped with white and a pale yellow 

 wattle on each side of the basal part of the mandible ; legs and feet 

 gre3'ish horn. Total length ;U inches, wing 15-2, tail 13-5, 

 tarsus 4-(). 



Adult female. Differs from the male adult in having the feathers 

 of the crest white at the base, while the breast, sides, and thighs 

 arc barred with white, as in the adult female of C. pinima ; the 

 wing-coverts also are more or less marked with lines of the same 

 colour: cere purplish black; bill black; legs greyish horn. Total 

 length 3I-5 inches, wing l4-o, tail 13-5, tarsus 4. 



Hah. Venezuela. 



a. (S ad. sk. S. America. Purchased. I (Types of 



b. $ ad. sk. S. America. Lidth de Jeude Uoll. j the species.) 



c. d. $ ad. sk. 8. America. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



e,f. (S 2 ad. sk. Venezuela, May, Salviu-Godman Coll. 



Oct. 

 q. Skeleton. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



10. Crax alberti. 



Crax alberti, Fraser, P. Z. S. ISoO, p. 24G, pis. xxvii.,xxviii. (nec^) ; 



lieicheiib. Ttiubcn, p. 13G (186:?) ; Gray, List Gallinm Brit. Mus. 



p. 15 (18C)7); id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. i>rJ3 (1870); Sdat. ^- Salvin, 



P. Z. S. 1870, p. 517 [U.S. Colombia]; Sclat. Trans. Z. S. ix. 



p. 280, pi. xlviii. (1875). 

 ?Crax niikaui ? [nee Sl i'- -^e/=. Orn. i?;-«w. p. 343(1870). 

 Crax \ iridirostris, Selat. Tr. Zool. Soe. ix. p. 282 (1875), x. p. 544, 



pi. xcii. (1879) ; id. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 463 [Cartagena]. 



Adult male. Similar in plumage to the adult male of C. dauhen- 

 toni ; the lores are thickly covered with feathers. The basal part 

 of the culmen, which is somewhat swollen, and the wattles on 

 either side of the mandible blue, the remainder of the bill horny 

 yellow ; legs and feet grey. Total length '.i'j inches, ■wing 16, 

 tail lo, tarsus 4-6. 



Adult fanale. Most nearly resembles the adult of C. fasdolata, but 

 is easily distinguished by the nearly black feathers of the crest as 

 well as by the much deeper colour of the uuderparts and the densely 

 featlu'red lores. General colour of the head, neck, chest, and upper 

 parts black ; each of the feathers of the crest with two white bars; 

 lower part of the mantle, wing-covcrts, scapulars, secondaries, and 

 inner ])rimaries, together with the lower back and tail, narrowly 

 barred with white ; the six outer primaries bright rufous chest- 

 nut, while the seventh and eighth are intermediate in colour beiween 

 them and the innermost primaries and secondaries ; breast chest- 

 nut, shading into cinnamon on the belly and under tail-coverts ; 

 sides of the breast and thiglis more or less barred with black ; and 

 all the tail-feathers tipped with white. Total length 32'5 inches, 

 wing 15'2, tail 13-3, tarsus 4'3. 



Uab. U.S. Colombia. 



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