168 RED CURASSOW. 



belly white ; lower part, vent, and thighs, pale 

 yellowish brown. 



One figured by Albin has the globose tubercle : 

 the cere is yellow ; the body is black, barred with 

 rufous, as in the last, during its young state : its 

 tail is black, barred alternately with white : the 

 neck is barred with the same ; and the crest is 

 white, with a black tip : .vent white. 



Native of Guiana, particularly about Curassow. 



RED CURASSOW. 



(Crax rubra.) 



CR. spadicea, cervice collogue superne lineis alternis albis et 



nigris, cerd nigrd, caudd Jasciis novem albo-luteis, nigro- 



marginatis , t emporibus plumis, tectis. 

 Chesnut-coloured Curassow ; the nape and upper parts of the 



neck with alternate lines of white and black ; the cere black ; 



the tail with nine whitish yellow fasciae, edged with black ; 



the temples covered with feathers. 



Crftx rubra. Temm. Gall. Ind. p. 687. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1 . 2/0. 



2Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 736. 

 Crax peruvianus. Briss. Orn. 1. 305. 16. 

 Hocco Coxilitli. Temm. Pig. et Gall. <o. 3. p. 21 . 

 Coxilitli. Raii. Syn.p. 57- 

 Red Peruvian Hen. Albin. Birds, v. 3. pi. 4O. 

 Hen crested Curassow. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 698. c. pi. 63. 

 Var. /3. differt aprecedente, corpore spadiceo atro ; collo inferiore, 



pectore, rectricibusque intermediis atris. 



