GREAT PANAMA CURASSOW 



regions. Their flight is slow and heavy but 

 when once started they can glide for consider- 

 able distances with the wings held steady. 

 They are among the Panamanian birds most 

 in need of such protection from extinction as 

 laws and reservations can give. 



i. Crax globicera (Linnaeus) 

 Great Panama Curassow 



Crax panamensis STONE, Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci., 

 1918, p. 242. 



Length, about 856 mm. (34.00 in.) ; tail, about 

 338 mm. (13.30 in.). 



Male. Plumage black glossed with dark 

 green, the feathers of the conspicuous crest 

 curled at their tips; the middle of the abdomen, 

 flanks and under tail coverts, white. Bill black- 

 ish horn, the base and wattle yellow; iris dark 

 brown. 



Female. Very dissimilar in coloring. Crest 

 black with a band of white across the middle 

 third; sides of head and neck barred black and 

 white; remainder of plumage rufous chestnut 

 with the tail chestnut barred with black and 

 buff, the abdomen marbled with black and 

 buff. Bill grayish green, terminally yellow. 



Large and handsome birds, the sexes very dif- 

 ferent in coloring, but in both the crest is formed 

 of a double line of long, upstanding and recurved 

 feathers. They are of shy and retiring habits, 

 sometimes feeding on the ground but more often 

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