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Genus IV. Pavxis’. 
PavxXIs GALEATA. (Plate LIII.) 
Crax pauxi, Linn. 8. N. i. p. 270. 
Pierre de Cayenne, Buff, Pl. Enl. 78. 
Crax galeata, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 624. 
Pauxi galeata, Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 1 et 683; Gray, Gen. of B. iii. p. 487, et Hand-l. ii. 
p- 354; Reichenb. Tauben, p. 137; Scl. ct Salv. P.Z.S. 1870, p. 519, et Nomencl. p. 185; 
Scl. P. Z. 8. 1870, p. 669. 
Ourax pauxi, Cuv. Régn. Anim. 1817, i. p. 441; Bennett, Gard. & Men. ii. p. 65. 
Lophocerus galeatus, Swains. Classif. of B. ii. p. 353 et An. in Men. p. 184. 
Ouraz galeata, Tsch. F. P. p. 289. 
Nigra eneo nitens: ventre imo et caude apice albis: pilei plumis brevibus, erectis: 
tuberculo frontali maximo, oviformi, ceruleo: rostro rubro: pedibus carneis: loris 
dense plumosis: long. tota 34, ale 16, caude 13, tarsi 4. Kem. mari similis, sed 
statura paulo minore. 
Hab. Venezuela: Rio Cassiquiari, and Upper Orinoco (Natt.); near Caracas (Levraud 
in Mus. Paris); near Tucacas (Warmington). 
Natterer heard of this bird’s existence when on the Upper Rio Negro, and has 
recorded that, according to information received from the natives, it occurs on the Rio 
Cassiquiari and adjoining parts of the Orinoco, and is called by the natives “ Pawai de 
piedra,” or Stone Curassow—a name also sometimes applied to it in English, from the 
pebble-like projection on the front of the bill. 
In Gray and Mitchell’s ‘ Genera of Birds’ (pl. exxii.), a figure is given of a brown bird 
(taken from a specimen in the gallery of the British Museum) which is named “ Pauai 
galeata.” At the time Mr. Salvin and I prepared our Synopsis of the Cracidwe, we 
were of opinion that this form (which is also represented here, Pl. LIII. fig. 2) was 
the normal female of the present species. But this appears not to be the case. 
Mr. Vekemans informs me that in a pair of these birds in the Antwerp Gardens, 
the female of which laid eggs in 1874, the only difference consists in the smaller size 
of the female. 
Mr. G. Dawson Rowley, F.Z.S., writes to me upon the same subject as follows :— 
“In Gray’s Genera, vol. iii., I find the plate of a brown bird named Pawat galeata, 
of which I have shown to you an example living in my aviary. This example 
has been with me in perfect health for more than five years. It only differs from 
Gray's figure in that the edges of the feathers of the back and tail are nearly white, 
while he makes them light brown; but this I suppose to be the consequence of age, as 
my bird is old, and the plumage is very perfect, fine and glossy. ‘This bird is an 
undoubted hen. 
1 Emended from “ Pauvi,’ in the same way as “ Mitua” from “ Mitu.” Cf. Strickland, Ann, N. H. vii. 
p- 36 (1841). 
