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Adult Female—Differs from the female of C. fasciolafa in 
having the tail-feathers uniform black (the mzddle pair only 
being irregularly marked with white in a younger example) ; 
the ¢highs, as well as the breast and sides, black, 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, 
mo tall 13°55 tarsus, 4°1. 
Range-—South America. District of Para, perhaps to the 
United States of Colombia. 
IV. THE MEXICAN CURASSOW. CRAX GLOBICERA. 
Crax globicera, Linn. S. N. i. p. 270 (1766); Sclater, Trans. 
Zuo ixep. 274, pl. xl. (1875) (part; Ogilvie-Grant, Car. 
B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 478 (1893). 
Crax rubra, Vinn..S. N..1. p. 270 (1766). 
Crax temmincki, Tschudi, Faun. Per. p. 287 (1844-46). 
Crax pseudalector, Reichenb. Tauben, p. 131, pl. 174, fig 15-16, 
and C. edwardst, p. 134 (1862). 
Adult Male—Black, glossed with dark green, except the 
middle of the belly, flanks, and under tail-coverts, which are 
white ; @ szvollen yellow knob at the base of the upper bill. 
Total length, 35 inches; wing, 15°7 ; tail, 14; tarsus, 4°6. 
Adult Female-—Crest feathers widely Jarred 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; ¢az/ 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. 
