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where it forms a small rounded wattle : the orbits are 

 naked, but the lores feathered : the head is ornamented 

 with the same sort of crest as is common to all the 

 preceding species. 



Helmet Curassow. 



Lophoeeius galeata, Sw. (F?^^. 28.) 



Body black, glossed with green ; belly and tips of the 

 tail white : base of the beak with a horny blue 

 pear-shaped tubercle. 



Crax Pauxi, Linn., Auct., Latham, &c. Crax Galeata, Lath, 

 hid. Orn. ii. 624. Le Purre de Cayenne, PI. Enl. 78. 

 Cushew Curassow, Edwards, pi. 292. f. 2. The Galeated 

 Curassow, Bennett, Zool. Gard. ii. 65. Ourase Pauxi, Cnv. 

 Rerj. Anim. 



The form of this extraordinary bird is, perhaps, the 

 most interesting to the scientific ornithologist of any in 

 the whole genus of curassow birds, inasmuch as it is 

 that which makes the nearest approach to the Guinea- 

 fowls, by possessing that singular horny process on 

 the head for which those birds, as well as the cassowary, 

 are alike distinguished. These processes on the heads 

 of birds are unquestionably analogous to the horns of 

 quadrupeds ; and as they are only found in those birds 

 which belong to the rasorial type, so are horns only 



