488 



1. Pauxis pauxi. 



Le Hocco du Mexique, Briss. Orn. i. p. 302 (1760). 



Crax pauxi, Liim. S. N. i. p. 270 (1766) ; Gmd. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 737 



(1788); Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 624 (1790^; Bonn. Tabl. Encycl. 



Meth. i. p. 175, pi. 86. fig. 1 (1791) ; Vieill. Gal. Ois. ii. p. 5, 



pi. 200 (1825). 

 Le Pierre de Cayenne, D'Aubent. PL Enl. ii. pi. 37 (no. 78) 



[Cayenne]. 

 Le Pauxi ou le Pierre, Buff. Hist. Nut. Ois. ii. p. 373 (1771). 

 Crax (jaleata, Lath. Lid. Orn. ii. p. 624 (1790) ; Bonn. Tabl. Encycl. 



Meth. i. p. 175 (1791) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 254 (1870). 

 Pauxi galeata, Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 1, 683 (1815) ; Gray, 



Gen. B. iii. p. 487, pi. cxxii. (1846) ; Reichenb. Tauben, p. 137 



(1862) ; Gray, List Gallinm Brit. Mus. p. 16 (1867) ; Sclat. 8f 



Salvin, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 519 [nr. Caracas, Venezuela, and Santa 



Martha, U.S. Colombia] ; Summerhayes, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 420 



[Venezuela]. 

 Ourax pauxi, Cuv. Beg. An. i. p. 440 (1817) ; Bennett, Gard. Sf 



Menag. ii. p. 65 (1831) ; Gray, List of B. pt. iii. Gall. p. 21(1844). 

 Ourax galeata, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xi. p. 173 (1819) ; 



Tschudi, Faun. Peruana, pp. 47, 289 (1844-6) [E. Peru]. 

 Lopbocerus galeata, Swains. Class. B. ii. p. 353 (1837) ; id. An. in 



Menag. p. 184 (1837). 

 Urax pauxi, Burmeister, Syst. Uehers. iii. p. 350 (1856). 

 Ourax (Crax) pauxi, v. Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 289 (1871) [Rio Cassi- 



quiari and Orinoco]. 

 Pauxis galeata, Selat. Trans. Z. S. ix. p. 285, pi. liii. fig. 1 (1875) ; 



Funck, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 566 ; Bowlei/, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 684 [egg] ; 



Sclat. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 648 ; Tacz. Orn. Peruu, iii. p. 266 (1886) 



[N.E. and Central Peru]. 

 Pauxis galeata, var. rubra, Sclat. Trans. Z. S. ix. p. 285, pi. liii. 

 fig. 2 (1875) ; Funck, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 566. 



Adult male. General colour of plumage black glossed with dark 

 green ; belly, under tail-coverts, and tip of tail white ; feathers on 

 the head and neck short and velvety ; a large elevated and fig- 

 shaped slate-bhie casque surmounts the base of the culmen and fore 

 part of the head. Bill bright red, legs red. Total length 33'5 inches, 

 wing 14, tail 13-2, tarsus 4-2, middle toe and claw 3"o. 



Adult female*. Head and neck black, as in the male, but the 

 feathers of the chin and throat are mostly pale reddish brown ; 

 mantle, wing-coverts, and scapulars chestnut, barred and mottled 

 with shining black and tipped with bufi' or whitish buff; lower 

 back reddish brown, indistinctly barred with black ; upper tail- 

 coverts black, mottled and irregularly barred with rufous bufi'; 

 quills pale rufous, with oblique markings and mottlings of black ; 

 chest rufous, with shining bars of black, shading into paler rufous 

 buff on the breast, sides, and thighs ; belly and under tail-coverts 

 white ; tail black tipped with white, the central feathers and basal 



* Some females resemble the male in plumage, and differ only in being 

 somewhat smaller ; but these are apparently abnormal spec?imens, or barren 

 females which have assumed male plumage. 



