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Genus IV. Pauxis'. 

 Pauxis galeata. (Plate LIII.) 



Crax pauid, Linn. S. N. i. p. 270. 



Pierre de Cayenne, BufF. PI. Enl. 78. 



Crax galeata, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 624. 



Pauxi galeata, Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 1 et 683; Gray, Geu. of B. iii. p. 187, et Hand-1. ii. 



p. 354; Reichenb. Tauben, p. 137; Sel. et Salv. P.Z. S. 1870, p. 519, et Nomencl. p. 135; 



Sol. P.Z. S. 1870, p. 069. 

 Ourax pauxi, Cuv. Regn. Anim. 1817, i. p. 441 ; Bennett, Gard. & Men. ii. p. 65. 

 Lopliocerus galeatus. Swains. Classif. of B. ii. p. 353 et Au. in Men. p. 184. 

 Ourax galeata, Tsch. F. P. p. 289. 



Nigra seneo nitens : ventre imo et caudse apice albis : pilei plumis brevibus, erectis : 

 tuberculo frontali maximo, oviformi, ceeruleo : rostro rubro : pedibus carneis : loris 

 dense plumosis : long, tota 34, alee 16, caudse 13, tarsi 4. Fern, mari similis, sed 

 statura paulo minore. 



Hah. Venezuela : Rio Cassiquiari, and Upper Orinoco {Natt.) ; near Caracas (Levraud 

 in Mus. Paris) ; near Tucacas ( Warmington). 



Natterer heard of this bird's existence when on the Upper Rio Negro, and has 

 recorded that, according to information received from the natives, it occurs on the Rio 

 Cassiquiari and adjoining parts of the Orinoco, and is called by the natives ''Pauxi de 

 piedra," or Stone Curassow — a name also sometimes applied to it in English, from the 

 pebble-like projection on the front of the bill. 



In Gray and Mitchell's ' Genera of Birds ' (pi. cxxii.), a figure is given of a brown bird 

 (taken from a specimen in the gallery of the British Museum) which is named " Pauxi 

 galeata." At the time Mr. Salvin and I prepared our Synopsis of the Cracidae, we 

 were of opinion that this form (which is also represented here, PL LIII. fig. 2) was 

 the normal female of the present species. But this appears not to be the case. 

 Mr. Vekemans informs me that in a pair of these birds in the Antwerp Gardens, 

 the female of which laid eggs in 1874, the only diiference consists in the smaller size 

 of the female. 



Mr. G. Dawson Rowley, F.Z.S., writes to me upon the same subject as follows : — 



" In Gray's Genera, vol. iii., I find the plate of a brown bird named Pauxi galeata, 

 of which I have shown to you an example living in my aviary. This example 

 has been with me in perfect health for more than five years. It only differs from 

 Gray's figure in that the edges of the feathers of the back and tail are nearly white, 

 while he makes them light brown ; but this I suppose to be the consequence of age, as 

 my bird is old, and the plumage is very perfect, fine and glossy. This bu-d is an 

 undoubted hen. 



' Emended from " iVra.ri," in the same way as " Mitm " from " Miiu." Cf. Strickland, Ann. N. H. vii. 

 p. 36 (1841). 



