THE RASOR-BILLED CURASSOW. 



OlRAX MlTC. Cu' 



Very few specimens of this bird, either hving or dead, 

 have been brought to Europe. It was first described 

 and figured by Marcgrave, under its Brazihan name of 

 Mutu, and after him by Jonston and Willughby. Later 

 naturahsts, from Brisson to Gmehn, never having seen 

 the bird, regarded it as a mere variety of the Crested 

 Curassow. i\I. Temminck, who was the first to point 

 out that it belonged to a different genus, speaks, in 

 his Histoire Naturelle des Galhnaces, of an individual 

 formerly confined in a Menagerie near the Hague as 

 the only living specimen that he had ever seen in 

 Holland. Several skins have since been procured from 

 Brazd by Count Hoffinannsegg, and M. Temminck has 

 given a good representation of the species in his splen- 

 did Planches Coloriees. 



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