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readily domesticated, but rarely breed in confinement. Hybrids 
with domestic fowls have been recorded. Except where men- 
tioned below the sexes are alike. 
Sub-fam. 1. Cracinae-—Craz alector is black with a purplish 
gloss, the belly being white, the naked lores and orbits black, the 
cere and base of the bill yellow, the tip bluish, and the feet horn- 
coloured. Throughout the whole genus, which is Central and South 
American, the female has a curly crest barred with white. The re- 
maining nine species differ in being greenish-black, and—except 
C. fasciolata—have a frontal knob, with or without a basal wattle 
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on each side of the mandible, the colour of these parts varying from 
scarlet or yellow to pale blue or purplish-black. The tail may be 
tipped with white; the females often exhibit white barring above, 
and have the plumage relieved by buff and chestnut. othocrax 
urumutum, ranging from British Guiana to the Upper Amazons, 
is chiefly chestnut above vermiculated with black, and cinnamon 
below ; the wings and tail being blackish with buff markings, the 
throat chestnut, the long crest black, the naked lores and orbits 
yellow and purplish, the bill scarlet, the feet flesh-coloured. The 
female has the lower parts mottled with dusky. Mitua mitw of 
British Guiana, Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia is blue-black, with chestnut 
