280 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON THE CURASSOWS 
This Curassow is easily distinguishable by its red bill, and has therefore been less 
often confounded with other species than most of its congeners. Burmeister, however, 
has united it to Crax blumenbachi of Spix, supposing that Spix’s figure may represent 
the female of the present bird. This can hardly be so. Spix’s plate obviously repre- 
sents the female of C. glodicera, or of some allied species of which we do not yet know 
‘the male. If his locality (Rio) be correct, the latter is probably the case. 
List of living specimens of Crax carunculata exhibited since 1860. 
Gt. SMALE Krans rissa seus Purchased: )-.cisiashate tihe Sas the AoE eee Reet April 5, 1859. 
Gs Hemale t,x death vere Purchases 4 a: t aiaets sca ie eke Gia ides wader eure March 12, 1861. 
¢, @ IPTANGHESOCaeerers ee stat hile, efaaate (orate tata togeio wintntarac sitet May 3, 1865. 
2 ae ; } Recetvediiniexchanges <.cqen. ten. accents eles February 26, 1867. 
gy h. Presented by Edward Thornton, Esq. .......... May 4, 1867. 
i, je TB PORIbe tls ois Rises ores ahs rss tls ea ale aaa ge (ope December 2, 1867. 
k. Deposited wersraontacps cia | nietiet steclar eitioist sorts ore October 29, 1868. 
t Female: vas. + Purchased. tected ietistel: qesstotitiols «ety attra May 25, 1870. 
Min Males ap srere oe ahels Purchased... (2¢tira ccs ewtok tivities eorbectonan December 23, 18738. 
7. Crax ALBERTI. (Plate XLVIII. ¢ et 2.) 
Craz alberti, Fraser, P.Z.S. 1850, p. 246, t. 27; Gray, List of Galline, p. 15,et Hand-l. ii. p. 253 ; 
Reichenb. Tauben, p. 136; Scl. et Saly. 1870, p. 517, et Nomencl. p. 135. 
Crax mikani 2, Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. p. 343. 
Nitenti-nigra: ventre imo, crisso et caudee apice albis: crista brevi, recurva, nigra: 
loris dense plumosis: cere tuberculo et mandibule carunculis ceruleis: rostri apice 
corneo: pedibus plumbeis: long. tota 30-0, ale 15:5, caude 14. Fem. nigra: crista 
albo fasciolata: dorso, alis extus et cauda supra albo anguste transfasciatis: cauda 
albo terminata: remigibus externis et abdomine toto castaneis: ventre medio 
crissoque pallidioribus. 
Hab. Columbia. 
Mr. Fraser first described this Curassow (which may be readily known by its densely 
feathered lores and blue wattles), from a specimen living in the aviaries at Knowsley in 
1850. It is, however, obvious.that the bird described and figured by him (J. c. pl. xxviii.) 
as the female of C. alberti is not the true female of this species, but that of Crax 
globicera. 
Crax alberti is now not unfrequently brought alive to this country. ‘There have been 
of late years specimens of both sexes in the Society’s Gardens, as will be seen by the 
subjoined list. Its true patria, which was long unknown, is certainly the wood-region 
of Columbia. A female in the collection of Salvin and Godman was transmitted direct 
from Bogota by Mr. G. Crowther. ‘There isa male in the Paris Museum, sent from 
the same locality by Dr. Lindig, and a female in the same collection obtained near Sta. 
Marta by M. Bonnecourt. 
