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CRESTED CURASSOW. 

 (Crax Alector.) 



CR. corpore supra ct subtus nigro : abdomine albo, pennis in ver- 



tice crispis atris, cera Jfavd, temporibus nudis Jlavis nigro- 



variegatis. 

 Curassow with the body above and beneath black, the abdomen 



white, the feathers on the crown curled and dark, the cere 



yellow, the temples naked, and variegated with black and 



yellow. 

 Crax Alector. Linn. Sysl. Nat. 1. 269. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 



735. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 622. l.Tcmm. Gall. Ind. p. 68p. 

 Crax Guianensis. Briss. Orn. 1. 298. 12.pt. 29. 

 Mituporanga. Raii. Syn. 56. 6. 

 Hocco de la Guiane. Buff. Ois. 2. 375. pi. 13. 

 Hocco Mituporonga. Temm. Gall. v. 3. p. 2/. pi. 5.f. 1, 2, 



and 3. (beak, trachea, &c.) 

 Indian Cock. Phil. Trans. Ivi. p. 215. f. 3. 

 Crested Curassow. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 690. 1. 



LENGTH near three feet : the irides dull black- 

 brown : the eye is placed in a naked space, of a 

 yellow colour, varied with black, and reaching to 

 the base of the beak, which it covers to the 

 middle, as a kind of cere or skin : the crest, which 

 the bird can elevate or depress at pleasure, varies 

 in height according to the age of the bird ; in the 

 adult it is composed of twisted black feathers, 

 narrow at their base and broad at the tip : the 

 whole of the upper part of the plumage, the neck, 

 the breast, and the tail, are black, with green 

 reflections; the last, however, is tipped with 

 white ; though in some few individuals it is en- 



