280 ME. P. L. SCLATER ON THE CUEASSOWS 



This Cui-assow is easily distinguishable by its red bill, and has therefore been less 

 often confounded with other species than most of its congeners. Burmeister, however, 

 has united it to Crax hlumenhachi of Spix, supposing that Spix's figure may represent 

 the female of the present bird. This can hardly be so. Spix's plate obviously repre- 

 sents the female of C. cjloUcera, or of some allied species of which we do not yet know 

 the male. If his locality (Rio) be correct, the latter is probably the case. 



List of living specimens of Crax carunculata exhibited since 1860. 



a. Male Purchased April 5, 1859. 



h. Female Purchased March 12, 1861. 



c, d. Purchased May 3, 1865. 



"■ '^^^^ I Received in exchange February 26, 1867. 



/. Female J 



^, h. Presented by Edward Thornton, Esq May 4, 1867. 



■i^ y. Deposited December 2, 1867. 



Ic. Deposited October 29, 1868. 



I. Female Purchased May 25, 1870. 



m. Male Purchased December 23, 1873. 



7. Crax alberti. (Plate XLVIII. J et ? .) 



Crax alberti, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 216, t. 27 ; Gray, List of GaUinse, p. 15,.et Hand-l. ii. p. 253 ; 



Reichenb. Tauben, p. 136 ; Scl. et Salv. 1870, p. 517, et Nomencl. p. 135. 

 Crax mikani ? , Pelzeln, Oru. Bras. p. 343. 



Nitenti-nigra : ventre imo, crisso et caudse apice albis : crista brevi, recurva, nigra : 

 loris dense plumosis : cerse tuberculo et mandibulse carunculis cferuleis : rostri apice 

 corneo: pedibus plumb eis : long, tota ,30-0, alae 15-5, cauda; 14. Fern, nigra: crista 

 albo fasciolata: dorso, alis extus et cauda supra albo anguste transfasciatis : cauda 

 albo terminata : remigibus externis et abdomine toto castaneis : ventre medio 

 crissoque pallidioribus. 



Hob. Columbia. 



Mr. Eraser first described this Curassow (which may be readily known by its densely 

 feathered lores and blue wattles), from a specimen living in the aviaries at Knowsley in 

 1 850. It is, however, obvious that the bird described and figured by him (/. c. pi. xxviii.) 

 as the female of C. alberti is not the true female of this species, but that of Crax 

 globicera. 



Crax alberti is now not unfrequently brought alive to this country. There have been 

 of late years specimens of both sexes in the Society's Gardens, as will be seen by the 

 subjoined list. Its true patria, which was long unknown, is certainly the wood-region 

 of Columbia. A female in the collection of Salvin and Godman was transmitted direct 

 from Bogota by Mr. G. Crowther. There is a male in the Paris Museum, sent from 

 the same locality by Dr. Lindig, and a female in the same collection obtained near Sta. 

 Marta by M. Bonnecourt. 



