212 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 
Urax urumutum, Burmeister, Syst. Uebers. iii. p. 347 (1856). 
Nothocrax urumutum, Burmeister, Syst. Uebers. ill. p. 347 
(1856) ; Sclater, Trans. Z.'5.1x.-p 282, pl. 505 x. px 545. 
pl. xciv. (1879); Osilyie*Grant,-Cat. B. Brit. Musca 
p. 484 (1893). 
Adult Male—Crest black; feathered parts of head, throat, 
neck, and chest chestnut, shading into brownish chestnut on 
the upper-parts, and all finely mottled with black ; breast and 
rest of under-parts cinnamon, with some dusky mottling on the 
sides ; outer webs of the secondary quills mottled with rufous- 
buff ; tail black, tipped with whitish-buff. Naked space round 
eye yellow above, purplish below; bill scarlet; legs flesh- 
colour. Total length, 24 inches ; wing, 18°5 ; tail, 9; tarsus, 
3°5; middle toe and claw, 2°9. 
Adult Female—Differs from the male in having the upper- 
parts and middle tail-feathers more coarsely mottled with pale 
rufous-buff on a darker ground; and the chest, breast, and 
sides clouded with dusky. Size smaller; wing, 10°5 inches. 
Range.—British Guiana, Rio Negro, and Upper Amazons to 
Rio Pastaza and Sarayacu in Ecuador. 
Habits—According to Natterer, this bird lives during the 
day in hollow trees or the thickest part of the woods, and is 
very seldom met with by sportsmen; but when found it 
behaves with extreme stupidity, and is caught by the Indians 
with a loop fastened to the end of apole. It searches for food 
during the night, and its cry is heard before midnight and day- 
break. The Indians light torches, and follow the cry till they 
are near the bird, when they extinguish the light, and wait for 
daybreak to kill it. 
Mr. E. Bartlett writes: —“I first saw this beautiful species of 
Curassow ina Peruvian’s house, at Santa Maria on the Huallaga, 
where it was running about along with the common fowls. The 
bird appeared to be lively and active, and would fight the dogs 
and fowls, driving them out of the house. <A very curious cir- 
