282 ME. P. L. SCLATEE ON THE CUEASSOWS 



This specimen, which was purchased of the Jardin d'Acclimatation of Paris in 1870, 

 died in July 1873. It was examined by Mr. Garrod and ascertained to be a female. 

 It is of large size, measuring in the skin (now in Messrs. Salvin and Godman's collection), 

 total length 32 inches, wing 15, tail 13, tarsus 4 ; the lores are rather sparingly 

 feathered. Mr. Garrod tells me the trachea in this bird was quite simple. 



[On October 30, 1873, we purchased (also from the Jardin d'Acclimatation) what is 

 apparently a second specimen of the same species. It differs, however, in having much 

 more white below, the feathers of the throat and breast being white, with transverse 

 bars of black. There is also more white at the base of the crest. The iris is bright 

 reddish brown ; the feet and legs pale greyish horn-colour. This specimen is still living 

 in the Society's Gardens. — P. L. S. March 11, 1875.] 



[3. Ckax vikidikostris, sp. nov. 



Under this designation I have been somewhat unwillingly constrained to place on our 

 register a Curassow which I met with in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of 

 Amsterdam, during a recent visit, and which, having been most kindly lent to me by 

 Mr. Westerman, is now in the Society's Gardens. It is perhaps most nearly allied to 

 Crax alberti, having a large caruncle on the lower mandible as in that species. But 

 this and the swollen cere are of a pale green colour instead of blue. It may be 

 characterized as follows : — 



Nitenti-nigra : ventre imo crissoque et caudse apice albis : cristas plumis brevibus 

 . exstantibus retroflexis : rostri cera tumida et carunculis mandibulse inferioris pallida 

 viridescenti-fiavis : pedibus plumbeis : crassitie insignis : maiov q^xwca. Crax globicera. — 

 P. L. S. June 3, 1875.] 



Genus II. Nothocrax. 



NoTHOCRAX URUMUTUM. (Plate L.) 



Crax ummutum, Spis, Av. Bras. ii. p. 49, t. 62; Gray, Gen. of B. iii. p. 486, et Hand-1. ii. p. 254; 

 Cab. in Schomb. Guian. iii. p. 746; Keicheub. Tauben, p. 132; Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. p. 288. 

 Urax urumutum, Burm. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 347. 

 Nothocrax urumutum, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 519, et 1873, p. 307, et Nomencl. p. 135. 



Rufescens, nigro vermiculata: pilei cristati plumis elongatis pendentibus nigris: 

 cervice undique et corpore subtus castaneis, ventre imo in cinnamomeum traliente : 

 Cauda nigricante, rectricum pogoniis externis rufescentibus nigro vermiculatis : spatio 

 oculari late nudo, in ave viva cserulescente : rostro rubro : pedibus rubellis : long, tota 

 24, alse 12, caudse 10, tarsi 2-6. 



Hab. British Guiana (iS'c/«o??i5.); Rio Negro {Spix zad Natt.) ; Rio Pastaza, Upper 

 Amazons {E. Bartlett). 



We have not yet succeeded in obtaining living specimens of this rare and singular 

 species. Mr. E. Bartlett's notes on its habits (P. Z. S. 1873, p. 307) are as follows : — 



