276 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON THE CURASSOWS 
2. CRAX DAUBENTONI. (Plates XLI. ¢, XLII. 2.) 
Hocco, Faisan de la Guiane, Buff. Pl. Enl. 86. 
Craxz daubentoni, G. R. Gray, List of Gall. p. 15 (1867), et Hand-l. ii. p. 253; Sel. et Salv. P.Z.S. 
1870, p. 516, et Nomencl. p. 185; Sclat. P. Z. 8. 1870, p. 671. 
Crax aldrovandi, Reichenb. Tauben, p. 134, tab. 272. f. 5038 (¢) et tab. 273. f. 1518 (2). 
Crax globicera, Temm. Hist. Nat. des Gall. iii. pp. 12 et 686; Reichenb. Taub. p. 133, tab. 273. 
f, 1bi7. 
Crax mikani 8, Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. p. 343 (9). 
Nitenti-nigra: ventre imo et caude apice albis: criste elongate plumis nigris 
recurvis: loris plumosis: cera tuberculata et mandibula utrinque ad basin carunculata 
flavis: pedibus nigricantibus: long. tota 32, ale 15°5, caude 14, tarsi 4°5. Fem. mari 
similis, sed crista ad basin albo obsolete fasciata: ventre et tibiis albo transfasciolatis: 
cera et rostro nigris. 
Hab. Venezuela, near Caracas (Levraud); Tucacas (Wright and Warmington). 
This Curassow was confounded by the older authors with C. glodicera; and it must 
always, perhaps, remain somewhat of an open question to which bird that name should 
in strict propriety be applied. Mr. Gray first correctly associated the two sexes of the 
present bird, and in his ‘ List of Gallinze’ gave the name daubentoni to it, in consequence 
of the male being figured by Daubenton as the Hocco, Faisan de la Guiane, in the 
‘Planches Enluminées.’ This species and its northern representative are certainly 
close allies, the chief difference between the two males consisting in the present bird 
having broad white tips to the rectrices. But the females, it will be observed, are very 
different. . 
The forest-region of Venezuela is the only locality which I know of for this Curassow. 
M. Levraud transmitted specimens of it in his extensive collection from Caracas, which 
I have examined at Paris. In 1870 we received our first living pair of this species, 
from Mr. James Wright, who obtained them from near Tucacas in Venezuela. In the 
following year Mr. A. Warmington was kind enough to bring us a male and two 
females from the same port, and to furnish me with the following notes on the 
subject. 
“The three Curassows (one male and two females) were captured at ‘ Maron’ near 
Tucacas, N. Venezuela, and at the present time are nearly two years old, having 
been taken from the nest when scarcely larger than a chick of two months old. They 
soon became perfectly tame, and would follow me about. When able to fly they made 
short flights, always quickly returning, and seldom alighting. At night they invariably 
roosted on the highest spot they could find in the home corral. They are called by 
the natives ‘Poru.’ Their cry is a sort of mournful prolonged whistle, and in the 
forest, when eight or ten are together, has a very singular effect. It is not common to 
see these birds on the ground. When they alight in a tree they almost invariably 
utter their cry, and at the same time raise the tail-feathers fan-like, thus exposing the 
