214 LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY. 
I. THE RAZOR-BILLED CURASSOW. MITUA MITU. 
Crax mitu, Linn. S. N. i. p. 270 (1766). 
Pauxt nuitu, 'Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 8, 685 (1815). 
Ourax mitu, Cuv. Regne An. i. p. 441 (1817); Temm. Pl. Col 
v. pl. 20 |(na:153| (rd23). 
Crax tuberosa, Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 51, pl. Ixvit. 2 (1825). 
Ourax erythrorhynchus, Swains. Class. B. ii. p. 352 (1837). 
Mitua brasiliensis, Reichenb. Tauben, p. 137 (1862). 
Mitua tuberosa, Sclater, Trans. Z. S. ix. p. 283, pl. li. (1878). 
Afitua mitu, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 486 
(1893). 
Adult Male and Female-—General colour black, glossed with 
blue ; belly and under tail-coverts dark chestnut ; /a// tipped 
with white. Crest well developed ; upper mandible swollen 
and elevated. 
Mave: Votal length, 34 inches ; wing, 14°53 tail, 12> tarsus 
44; middle toe and claw, ,3’5. 
Female: Somewhat smaller. 
Range.—British Guiana, extending eastwards to Para, south 
along the Rio Tapajos and Rio Madeira to Matto Grosso, also 
to Bolivia, westwards to Peru, the Rio Marafion, and the Upper 
Amazons. 
Mr. H. W. Bates, who met with numbers of this species on 
the Rio Tapajos, writes :—‘‘ We were amused at the excessive 
and almost absurd tameness of a fine Mutum or Curassow 
Turkey that ran about the house. It was a large glossy-biack 
species, having an orange-coloured beak, surmounted by a 
bean-shaped excrescence of the same hue. It seemed to con- 
sider itself as one of the family, attended at all the meals, 
passing from one person to another round the mat to be fed, 
and rubbing the sides of its head in a coaxing way against 
their cheeks or shoulders. At night it went to roost on a 
chest in a sleeping-room beside the hammock of one of the 
little girls, to whom it seemed particulary attached, following 
