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and bounded above and beneath with blackish : the legs 

 are yellow. Dr. Latham says that the base of the biU^ 

 over which the cere extends, is gibbous, but varies 

 greatly in degree according to the age of tlie bird ; and 

 that it is always smallest in the females : he further 

 adds, that the space round the eye is not always the 

 same; as in some birds it is bare, while in others it is 

 covered with short feathers. The first variety, or hy- 

 brid, differs in having the lower part of the belly and 

 vent white, and the tail without any bands : the second 

 is confessedly a young bird, which was hatched in the 

 menagerie at Osterly Park *, and was barred all over 

 with cream- colour : the third is described by Latham as 

 follows : — Cheeks naked : bill horn colour ; crest white, 

 with the end black ; head, neck, breast, and upper part 

 of the back plain black ; wings, quills, and upper tail 

 covers marked with pale rufous and black bars ; tail 

 black, crossed with distant yellowish white bands, and 

 tipt with the same ; under plumage pale yellowish 

 rufous. 



Wattled Curassow. 



Crax carunculata, Temminck. 



Pig. et Gall iii. pi. 4. f. 3. the bill. 



We insert this rare species, as it has been described 

 by M. Temminck, that the attention of Englishmen, re- 

 sident in Brazir, may be directed to it ; for, at present, 

 it is only known from a single stuffed specimen pre- 

 served in that country, which is probably now in M. 

 Temminck's collection in Holland. 



The whole plumage, with the exception of the ab- 

 domen, which is chestnut, is uniform black, glossed with 

 green ; the legs alone being brown. It chiefly differs 

 from all others, however, in its bill, which is shorter 

 and stronger than in C. Alector, and it has the upper 

 mandible more elevated ; the cere at the base is red, and 

 it is prolonged on each side of the under mandible, 



* Lath. Gcii. Hist. viii. 154. 

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