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Young ? Black, with broad bands of rufescent white on the 

 upper part of back ; wings, tail, breast, lower part of back, and 

 rump rufous white, with narrow bands of black ; beneath the 

 body and thighs rufescent white. Crest white, with black tips. 

 Sometimes the wing-coverts are plain rufescent white. 



3. CRAX BLUMENBACHII. Blumenbach's Curassow. 



Crax Blumenbachii, Spix, Av. Bras. t. 64. female. 

 Crax Temminckii, Tschudi,Faun. Per. p. 287 (male). 

 Crax rubra, Temm. Gall. iii. p. 687 (female). 

 Crax rubra, hybrida, var., Temm. Gall. iii. p. 688. 

 Crax Alberti, $ , Fras. Proc. Z. S. 1850, p. 246, pi. 28 ; Lath. 

 Hist. viii. pi. 123?; PI Enl. 125. 



a. Brazil? 



b. ? From Mr. Warwick's Collection. 



Cj d. Guatemala. From M. Verreaux's Collection. 

 e. S. America? (Crax Alberti , $,Fr.). From the Zoolo- 

 gical Society's Collection. 



4. CBAX ALBERTI. Prince Albert's Curassow. 



Crax Alberti, Fras. Proc. Z. S. 1850, p. 246, pi. 27. 

 Crax spheerolaryngus Alberti, Eeichenb. Col. p. 136. 



a-c. S. America, male and female. From the Zoological 

 Society's Collection. 



5. CBAX DAUBENTONI. Daubenton's Curassow. 



Crax globicera, Temm. Nat. Hist, des Gall. iii. p. 686 : Reichenb. 



Col. t. 273. f. 1517, 1518. 

 ?Crax Aldrovandi, p., Eeichenb. Col p. 134. t. 2726. f. 5038: 



PI. Enl. 86. 



a. Central America ?, adult. From Mr. Leadbeater's Col- 



lection. 



b. Central America ? From M. Lydth's Collection. 



c. Central America ? From the Zoological Society's Col- 



lection. 



Black, with a greenish gloss ; lower part of abdomen, under 

 tail-coverts, and tips of tail-feathers white. Cere, knob-like 

 globular elevation, and wattle yellow. Lores densely plumed, 

 and ring round the eyes naked. 



Female similar to the male, but with irregular narrow white 

 bars on wing-coverts, quills, breast, upper part of abdomen, sides, 

 and thighs. Crest black, with a more or less narrow white bar 

 near the base of each feather. Cere black. 



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