274 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON THE CURASSOWS 
Genus I. Crax. 
1. Crax Gtopicera. (Plate XL. ¢ et ?.) 
Craw globicera, Linn. 8. N. i. p. 270 (partim) ; Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p. 311; Salvin, Ibis, 1861, 
p. 143; Sclater, P. Z.S. 1860, p. 253; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N.Y. viii. p. 12, ix. p. 139; v. Frantz. 
J. £. O. 1869, p. 373; Scl. et Salv. P.Z.S. 1870, pp. 513 et 838, et Nomencl. p. 135. 
Crax temminckii, Tsch. F. P. Aves, p. 287. 
Craz alberti 2, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 250, tab. xxviii. (9). 
Crax blumenbachii, G. R. Gray, List of Gall. p. 15, et Hand-l, ii. p. 253. 
Crax alector, Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 223; Moore, P. Z.S. 1859, p. 61. 
Crax rubra, Linn. S. N. i. p. 270 (2) ; Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 21 et 687 (2); Lawr. Ann. 
L.N. Y. vii. p. 301 (9); Bennett, Gard. & Men. Z. 8. ii. p. 225. 
Curasso bird, Edward’s Gleanings, pl. 295, unde, . 
Crax edwardsi, Reich. Tauben, p. 134. 
Crax pseudalector, Reichenb. Tauben, p. 181, tab. 273. f. 1516 (7). 
Craz albini, Lesson, Traité d’Orn. p. 484, et Reichenb. Tauben, p. 135 (?). 
Nitenti-nigra: ventre imo crissoque albis: criste elongate plumis nigris, apicem 
versus recurvis: loris parcé plumulosis: cera tuberculata et rostro toto luteis; pedibus 
corneis: long. tota 34, alee 18°5, caudze 15:5, tarsi4:7. Fem. castanea, ventre imo cinna- 
momeo: dorso superiore plus minusye nigro induto: capite cristato et cervice undique 
nigris, albo maculatis: alis extus caudaque nigro et ochraceo plus minusve variegatis 
et transfasciatis. 
Hab. Western Mexico (Deppe); Tehuantepec (Sumichrast); prov. Vera Cruz (Sallé 
and Sumichrast); Guatemala, Vera Paz and Pacific coast (Salvin); Belize (Leyland) ; 
Honduras (Taylor and G. Whitely); Costa Rica (v. Frantz.) ; Veragua (Arcé) ; Panama 
(MCleannan). 
Linneus’s Crax globicera is founded mainly upon the Craa curassous of Brisson (Orn. 
i. p. 300), which is more likely to be intended for this species than any other. Brisson 
mentions the tubercula ad basin rostri, rotunda, lutea—which excludes everything 
except the present bird and C. daubentoni. And as he says nothing whatever of the 
tail being tipped with white, the balance of evidence is in favour of his having intended 
to describe the present species. Craz rubra of Linneeus, founded upon Crax peruvianus 
of Brisson (op. cit. p. 305), is, there can be little doubt, intended for the female of the 
present bird. 
The first author who appears to have correctly identified these birds as male and 
female is Tschudi, who, in his ‘ Fauna Peruana,’ accurately describes both sexes under 
the name Crax tenminckit, from specimens obtained by Deppe in Western Mexico; but 
he is no doubt in error in supposing that this was the species that he himself saw in 
the wood-region of Eastern Peru, where it is represented by Craax globulosa. 
In the first paper on the Ornithology of Guatemala, written by Mr. Salvin and 
myself, we erroneously called the Guatemalan bird Craaz alector. This mistake was 
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