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sented to the Zoological Society by Lieutenant Maw, 

 R. N., who, in his Journal of a Passage from the Pacific 

 to the Atlantic descending the River Maranon, men- 

 tions having shot, near the upper part of that river, a 

 species of Curassow " with a red globular fleshy sub- 

 stance above its beak, and two similar ones underneath." 

 This description can apply to no other known species 

 than the one before us. He states the native Peruvian 

 names of these birds to be Peury, a vernacular synonym 

 which, as far as we are aware, had not previously been 

 recorded. At a subsequent period of his travels he 

 procured, at Egas, within the Brazilian frontier, three 

 different kinds of Curassow, one of which, again called 

 the Peury of Peru, was in all probability the same bird. 

 He gives, however, no further particulars of its habits ; 

 which, to judge from its behaviour in captivity, must be 

 nearly the same with those of the better known species 

 of the group. 



