POULTRY. 



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CURASSOWS AND GUANS. 



, EAVING the pigeons, we now come to the large and important order of birds, 

 termed scientilically the Gallinge, and, more popularly, the Poultry. Sometimes 

 they are termed Rasores, or scrapers, from their habit of scraping up the ground 

 in search of food. To this order belong our domestic poultry, the grouse, par- 

 tridges, and quails, the turkeys, pheasants, and many other useful and interest- 

 ing birds. In almost every instance the Gallinse are handsome birds, and inter- 

 esting in their habits, but as their number is legion, and our space is rapidly 



diminishing, we must content ourselves with such species as afford the best types of the order 



to which they belong. 



CRESTED CUEASSOW .— Crar aleclor. 



Our first example of these birds is the Crested Curassow, the representative of the 

 ^enus Crax, in which are to be found a number of truly splendid birds. All the Curassows 

 •are natives of tropical America, and are found almost wholly in the forests. 



