282 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON THE CURASSOWS 
This specimen, which was purchased of the Jardin d’Acclimatation of Paris in 1870, 
died in July 1873. It was examined by Mr. Garrod and ascertained to be a female. 
It is of large size, measuring in the skin (now in Messrs. Salvin and Godman’s collection), 
total length 52 inches, wing 15, tail 13, tarsus 4; the lores are rather sparingly 
feathered. Mr. Garrod tells me the trachea in this bird was quite simple. 
[On October 30, 1873, we purchased (also from the Jardin d’Acclimatation) what is 
apparently a second specimen of the same species. It differs, however, in having much 
more white below, the feathers of the throat and breast being white, with transverse 
bars of black. There is also more white at the base of the crest. The iris is bright 
reddish brown; the feet and legs pale greyish horn-colour. This specimen is still living 
in the Society’s Gardens.—P. L. 8. March 11, 1875.] 
[3. CRAX VIRIDIROSTRIS, sp. NOv. 
Under this designation I have been somewhat unwillingly constrained to place on our 
register a Curassow which I met with in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of 
Amsterdam, during a recent visit, and which, having been most kindly lent to me by 
Mr. Westerman, is now in the Society's Gardens. It is perhaps most nearly allied to 
Crax alberti, having a large caruncle on the lower mandible as in that species. But 
this and the swollen cere are of a pale green colour instead of blue. It may be 
characterized as follows: 
Nitenti-nigra: ventre imo crissoque et caudz apice albis: cristee plumis brevibus 
exstantibus retroflexis: rostri cera tumida et carunculis mandibule inferioris pallide 
viridescenti-flavis: pedibus plumbeis: crassitie insignis: major quam Craax globicera.— 
P. L. S. June 3, 1875. ] 
Genus II. Nornocrax. 
NoTHOcRAX URUMUTUM. (Plate L.) 
Crax urumutum, Spix, Av. Bras, ii. p. 49, t. 62; Gray, Gen. of B. iii. p. 486, et Hand-l. ii. p. 254; 
Cab. in Schomb. Guian. iii. p. 746; Reichenb. Tauben, p. 132; Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. p. 288. 
Urax urumutum, Burm, Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 347. 
Nothocrax urumutum, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 519, et 1873, p. 807, et Nomencl. p. 135. 
Rufescens, nigro vermiculata: pilei cristati plumis elongatis pendentibus nigris: 
cervice undique et corpore subtus castaneis, ventre imo in cinnamomeum trahente: 
cauda nigricante, rectricum pogoniis externis rufescentibus nigro vermiculatis: spatio 
oculari late nudo, in ave viva crulescente: rostro rubro: pedibus rubellis: long. tota 
24, alee 12, caudee 10, tarsi 2:6. 
Hab. British Guiana (Schomb.); Rio Negro (Spix and Natt.); Rio Pastaza, Upper 
Amazons (2. Bartlett). 
We have not yet succeeded in obtaining living specimens of this rare and singular 
species. Mr. E. Bartlett’s notes on its habits (P. Z.S. 1873, p. 307) are as follows :— 
