(3ALEATED PAUXI. 1?3 



being shorter and thicker, and by having the 

 membrane at its base, as well as the greater por- 

 tion of the head, covered by short and serrated, 

 velvet-like feathers. 



GALEATED PAUXI. 

 (Ourax Galeata.) 



Ou. corpore atro, viridi nitente, abdomine apiceque caudte albis, 



tuberculo cornea ad basin rostri cceruleo pyriformi. 

 Pauxi with the body dark coloured, glossed with green ; the 



abdomen and tip of the tail white 5 the base of the beak with 



a horny, blue, pear-shaped tubercle. 

 Pauxi galeata. Temm. Gall. Ind. p. 683. 

 Crax galeata. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 6i>4. 4. 

 Crax pauxi. Linn. Syst.Nat. 1. 270. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1.737- 



Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 624. 3. Rail. Syn. 52. 5. 

 Crax Mexicanus. Briss. Orn. 1. 302. 14. 

 Le Hocco du Mexique. Buff. Ois. 2. 348. 

 Le Pierre de Cayenne. Ruff. PI. Enl. 78. 

 Pauxi & casque ou le pierre. Temm. Pig. et Gall. S.p.l.pl. \.f. 1 . 



(trachea.) 

 Cushew Curassow. Edv>. Glean.pl. IQS.f.l. Lath. Gen. Syn. 



4.696. 

 Galeated Curassow. Lath. Syn. Sup. 1. 206. 



LENGTH two feet and a half: beak with a horny 

 tubercle at its base, with grooves on the outside, 

 and the inside composed of cells : in the young 

 this is round, but in the old birds it becomes pyri- 

 form, and measures two inches and a half in 



