GRAX, CULEX. 175 



24. CRAX. Spec. 6. 



alcctor, (curassow,) cere yellow ; body black ; bel- 

 ly white. 



See MS. P. 



3 3. CROTALUS. Spec. 6. 

 horriduS) (rattle snake,) plates on the belly 167 ; 

 of the tail 23. About 5 or 6 feet long ; body 

 covered with triangular spots. Thick and 

 clumsy. 



See MS, P. 



2 3. CROTOPHAGA, Spec. 4. 

 major, blackish violet ; feathers edged with green > 

 quill-feathers dusky-green ; feet climbers. 



See MS. P. 



11 1. CUCULLANUS. Spec. 7. 



lacustris, body rufous and truncate before. In- 

 habits the liver and intestines offish. 



See MS P. 



2 3. CUCULUS. Spec. 55. 



mnorus, (cuckow,) cinereous ; whitish beneath-, 

 transversely streaked with brown ; tail round- 

 ed, blackish, dotted with white. 



americanus, (anurican cuckow,) tail wedge-form ; 

 body cinereous above, white beneath 5 lower 

 jnandable pale yellow. 



See MS. P. 



8 12. CULEX. Spec. 14. 

 (musquetoe,) cinereous, with eight brown 

 rings ; antennae of the male, pectinate. Makes 

 a shrill buzzing noise. The English call our 

 musquetoe the gnat, 



