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Adult Female. — Differs from the female of C . fasciolata in 

 having the tail-feathers uniform black (the middle pair only 

 being irregularly marked with white in a younger example) ; 

 the thighs^ as well as the breast and sides, blacky barred with 

 pale buff; and, in the adult, at least, the crest is black, nar- 

 rowly barred with white. Total length, 34*5 inches ; wing, 

 15-2 ; tail, 13-5; tarsus, 4-1. 



Range. — South America. District of Para, perhaps to the 

 United States of Colomb'a. 



IV. THE MEXICAN CURASSOW. CRAX GLOBICERA. 



Crax globicera^ Linn. S. N. i. p. 270 (1766); Sclater, Trans. 



Z. S. ix. p. 274, pi. xl. (1875) [part]; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. 



B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 478 (1893). 

 Crax rubra, Linn. S. N. i. p. 270 (1766). 

 Crax temmiiickii, Tschudi, Faun. Per. p. 287 (1844-46). 

 C7-ax pseudalector^ Reichenb.Tauben, p. 131, pi. 174, fig 15-16, 



and C edwardsi, p. 134 (1862). 



Adult Male. — Black, glossed with dark green, except the 

 middle of the belly, flanks, and under tail-coverts, which are 

 white ; a sivollen yellow knob at the base of the upper bill. 

 Total length, 35 inches ; wing, 157 ; tail, 14 ; tarsus, 4"6. 



Adult Female. — Crest feathers widely barred with white across 

 the middle ; rest of head, neck, and throat barred with black 

 and white ; mantle and chest black, washed or margined with 

 rufous, and glossed with green ; lower back mostly deep 

 brownish-chestnut; quills and wing-coverts chestnut, mottled 

 with black ; breast deep chestnut, shading into cinnamon on 

 the rest of the under-parts; tail black, the median feathers 

 generally mottled with chestnut, and with traces of irregular 

 yellowish-white bars. Size smaller ; wing, 14 inches. 



Range. — Central America, extending from Western Mexico 

 to Honduras and Cozumel Island. 



