202 Allen's naturalist's librarv. 



shoot as many as he required for food as his boat was passing 

 along. 



Nests. — Placed in a tree ; composed of sticks, and coarsely 

 lined with dry grass and leaves. 



Eggs. — Pure white ; two to six in number. 



n. sclater's curassow. crax fasciolata. 



Crux fasciohifa, Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 48, pi. Ixii. a (1825); 



Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 476 (1893). 

 Crax sda/eri, Gray, List Gallinae Brit. Mus p. 14 (1867) 

 [part]. 



Adult Male. — Like the male of C. alector^ but the plumage is 

 black, glossed with dark green, and the tips of the tail-feathers 

 are ivhite. Total length, 3o'5 inches; wing, 14*3; tail, i3'6; 

 tarsus, 4. 



Adult Female. — Crest white, with the base and tip of each 

 feather black ; upper-parts and tail black, with narrow white 

 cross-bars^ widest on the wings;* outer primary quills black, 

 barred with ivhite; chest, and sometimes the sides of breast, 

 buff, barred with black ; thighs and rest of under-parts pale 

 rufous-buff. Smaller than the male. Wing, 13-2 inches. 



Range. — Forests of Eastern South America, extending north 

 to Para, south to Paraguay, and thence east to Bolivia. 



III. natterer's curassow. crax pinima. 



Crax pinima, Natterer, MSS. ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 287, 341 

 (1870); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 477 



(1893). 

 Crax incommoda, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 690; id. Trans. 

 Z. S. ix. p. 281, pi. xlix. (1875); ^- P- 544j P^- ^^^"• 

 (1879). 

 Adult Male. — At present unknown. 



* These white bars appear to decrease with age ; in one of the examples 

 examined they have entirely disappeared on the tail. 



