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mensis), handsome gallinaceous birds allied to turkeys and 

 peafowl. The male was black with golden yellow wattles, 

 the female brown and yellow, barred like a pheasant. Both 

 had erectile crests of curled feathers on the head and upper 

 neck. They were very tame and when Herr Brade put his 

 hands in the cages and petted the birds, it was a great sight 

 to watch these crests rise as the birds responded and looked 

 eagerly for tidbits.^ 



1 A female pavon belonging to Herr Brade is figured from a photograph and de- 

 scribed by C. Werckle in Boletin de Fomento, kno IV, No. i, pp. 62-64, San Jose, 

 Jan., 1914. 



