274 MR. P. L. SCLATEE ON THE CUEASSOWS 



Genus I. Crax. 

 1. Crax GLOBiCEKA. (Plate XL. <? et ?.) 



Crax globicera, Linn. S. N. i. p. 270 (partim) ; Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p. 311; Salvin, Ibis, 1861, 

 p. 143 ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 253 ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 12, ix. p. 139 ; v. Frantz. 

 J. f. O. 1869, p. 373 ; Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 513 et 838, et Nomencl. p. 135. 



Crax temminckii, Tsch. F. P. Aves, p. 287. 



Crax alberti S , Eraser, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 250, tab. xxviii. ( ? ). 



Crax blumenbachii, G. R. Gray, List of Gall. p. 15, et Hand-1. ii. p. 253. 



Crax alector, Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 223 ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 61. 



Crax rubra, Linn. S. N. i. p. 270 ( ? ) ; Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 21 et 687 { $ ) ; Lawr. Ann. 

 L. N. Y. vii. p. 301 (?) ; Bennett, Gard. & Men. Z. S. ii. p. 225. 



Curasso bird, Edward's Gleanings, pi. 295, unde, . 



Crax edwardsi, Reich. Tauben, p. 134. 



Crax pseudalector , Reichenb. Tauben, p. 131, tab. 273. f. 1516 (?). 



Crax albini, Lesson, Traite d'Orn. p. 484, et Reictenb. Tauben, p. 135 (?) . 



Nitenti-nigra : ventre imo crissoque albis: cristiE elongatse plumis nigris, apicem 

 versus recurvis : loris parce plumulosis : cera tuberculata et rostro toto luteis ; pedibus 

 cornels : long, tota 34, alse 18'5, caudse 15"5, tarsi 4*7. Fein, castanea, ventre imo cinna- 

 momeo : dorso superiore plus minusve nigro induto : capite cristato et cervice undique 

 nigris, albo maculatis : alls extus caudaque nigro et ochraceo plus minusve variegatis 

 et transfasciatis. 



Hah. Western Mexico {Deppe) ; Tehuantepec {Sumichrast) ; prov. Vera Cruz {Salle 

 and Sumichrast) ; Guatemala, Vera Paz and Pacific coast (Salvin) ; Belize [Leyland) ; 

 Honduras {Taylor and G. Wliitely) ; Costa Kica {v. Frantz.) ; Veragua {Arce) ; Panama 

 {M'Cleannan). 



Linnseus's Crax glolicera is founded mainly upon the Crax curassous of Brisson (Orn. 

 i. p. 300), which is more likely to be intended for this species than any other. Brisson 

 mentions the tubercula ad basin rostri, rotunda, lutea — which excludes everything 

 except the present bird and C. dauhentoni. And as he says nothing whatever of the 

 tail being tipped with white, the balance of evidence is in favour of his having intended 

 to describe the present species. Crax rubra of Linnaeus, founded upon Crax peruvianus 

 of Brisson {op. cit. p. 305), is, there can be little doubt, intended for the female of the 

 present bird. 



The first author who appears to have correctly identified these birds as male and 

 female is Tschudi, who, in his ' Fauna Peruana,' accurately describes both sexes under 

 the name Crax temminckii, from specimens obtained by Deppe in Western Mexico ; but 

 he is no doubt in error in supposing that this was the species that he himself saw in 

 the wood-region of Eastern Peru, where it is represented by Crax globulosa. 



In the first paper on the Ornithology of Guatemala, written by Mr. Salvin and 

 myself, we erroneously called the Guatemalan bird Crax alector. This mistake was 



