THE RASOR-BILLED CURASSOW. 



OURAX MiTU. Cuv. 



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

 have been brought to Europe. It was first described 

 and figured by Marcgrave, under its Brazilian name of 

 Mutu, and after him by Jonston and Willughby. Later 

 naturalists, from Brisson to Gmelin, never having seen 

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

 Curassow^. M. Temminck, who was the first to point 

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

 his Histoire Naturelle des Gallinaces, 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 

 Brazil by Count Hoffmannsegg, and M. Temminck has 

 given a good representation of the species in his splen- 

 did Planches Coloriees. 



BIRDS. K 



