180 ANIMALS IN MENAGERIES. 



Mr. Schomberg, there are not three specimens of the 

 whole genus. 



The species now before us^ has the whole upper plum- 

 age^ including the head, neck^ breast, wings, and tail, 

 of a deep and uniform black, glossed with green : the bill, 

 vent, and under tail covers, however, are invariably white ; 

 and this latter colour generally tips the tail feathers. 

 The crest on the crown is very remarkable, and unlike 

 that of nearly all other birds ; the feathers are from two 

 to three inches long, rather narrow, and twisted at their 

 extremities so as to resemble little balls ; in the young 

 males they are much shorter : the sides of the head are 

 naked, and the skin is yellowish, but not near so bright 

 as that upon the cere, which covers more than half the 

 base of the bill. 



Numerous specimens of this species have been at va- 

 rious times sent to the Zoological Society ; but it does 

 not appear that the keepers have been successful in 

 breeding them, as was formerly, and, as we hear, is now, 

 practised in Holland. We hope and trust, however^ still 

 to hear this object has been accomphshed. 



Globe-billed Cubassow. 

 Crax globicera, Li7in. (Fig. 26.) 



Body, above and beneath, black ; abdomen white : bill 

 with a gibbous protuberance in front ; orbits slightly 

 naked and black, divided from the yellow cere. 



Crax globicera, Linn., Auct., Temminck, Gall. Ind. 686. Hocco 

 Fencholi, Temtn. Gall. in. \2. YLocco, Buffon, PI. Enl. '66. 

 young. Curassow Cock, Edwards, 295. fig. 1. 



According to the description of the authors above 

 quoted, the plumage of this species is precisely the same 

 as that of the last ; the difference between them chiefly, 

 if not exclusively, consisting in this having a globular 

 tubercle, about the size of a hazel nut, or cherry, at the 

 base of the bill, which is covered in that part, as in the 

 last species, by a lively yellow skin : the naked part of 



