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ANIMALS IN MENAGERIES. 



tipt with white. The second has the body black, banded 

 with rufous ; the crest white, tipt with black ; and the 

 neck alternately banded with white and black. 



The Red Curassow. 



Ciax rubra, Linn. 



Plumage chestnut ; neck transversely lineated with white 

 and black ; tail banded with whitish ; cere black ; 

 sides of the head feathered. 



Crax rubra, Linn., Auct., Temminck, Gall. Ind. 687. Hocco 

 Coaclitli, Temminck, Gall. iii. 21. Hocco de Perou, Bvffon, 

 PL E»l. 125. {Fig. 27.) 



This species, which, like the two preceding, is of the 

 size of a turkey, may be at once known by its chestnut 

 plumage : whether or no the other birds, placed by 

 M. Temminck as hybrids, and by Dr. Latham as varieties, 

 are really such, or distinct species, there are at present 

 no means of determining. 



The red curassow has the crest black, with a band of 

 white in the middle : the forehead, sides of the head, 

 and the top of the neck are pure white, e?.ch feather 

 being fringed or edged with black : the whole of the 

 body, both above and below, is of a uniform chestnut 

 brown ; the tail is the same, crossed with eight or nine 

 yellowish white bars, freckled with minute dusky spots. 



