LlVmG m THE SOCIETY'S GAEDEA^S. 545 



This specimen, as will be seen by the figure of it, is not very different from the 

 former, but has more white on the under surface, the white cross markings being 

 continued all over the breast and chest up to the chin. The lower belly and vent a/e 

 also slightly tinged with fawn-colour. 



The sex was ascertained by Prof Garrod, on dissection, to be female, as in the former 

 specimen ; so that we are still ignorant of the male of this species. 



6. NOTHOCEAX UEUMUTUM. (Plate XCIV.) 



Nuthocrax urnmutum (Spix). Scl. Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 282 et P. Z. S. 187", p. 681. 



In July last (1877), we obtained our first living example of this rare bird, which was 

 said to have been brought down from the Upper Amazons. As will be seen by Mr. Smit's 

 figure (PI. XCIV.), taken from the living bird, the colour of the naked skin round 

 the eye was incorrectly given in the former plate (vol. ix. PI. L.). The upper part of 

 it, above and in front of the eye, instead of being yellow, like the lower portion, is of a 

 bright yellow. The colour of the legs is pale flesh-colour in the living bird. 



[There was a specimen of this Curassow living in the Jardin des Plantes at Paris, 

 June 1879, which was similarly coloured.] 



Eead February 4th, 1879. 



7. MiTUA SALTixi. (Plate XCV.) 



Mitua salvini, Reinhardt, Vid. Medd. For. Kjobenh. 1879-80, p. ; Sclater, P.Z. S. 1879, p. 108, 



Nigra purpureo nitens, ventre imo et caudee apice albis ; pilei plumis elongatis sicut 

 in M. txiberosa jacentibus ; loris et capitis lateribus dense plumosis ; rostro sicut in 

 M. tomentosa formato, sed paulo lougiore et mmus alto, toto rubro ; pedibus rubris : 

 long, tota circ. 2T0, alaj 15, caudfe 12'5, tarsi 4"7. 



Hah. Brazil, prov. Bahial 



Obs. Sp. ventre albo satis distincta, quoad rostrum ad M. tomentosam, quoad cristam 

 magis ad M. tuherosam appropinquans. 



Through the kindness of Prof. E,einhardt I am able to add to my paper on the 

 Curassows, read in June last, a figure of the fine new species of Mitiia which he has 

 lately described from a specimen formerly li-sdng in the Zoological Gardens of 

 Copenhagen. In 1876 Prof. Eeinhardt first called my attention to this Curassow, 

 which had been received in April of that year from the Danish Consul at Bahia. The 

 bird having died at the end of 1878, was presented to the Museum of the University. 

 It was ascertained by dissection to be a female, and was necessarily quite adult, 

 having been nearly three years in captivity. The male would probably not be 

 different in colour, the sexes being alike in the two other species of Mitua. 



Unfortunately the exact locality of this Curassow could not be ascertained. It is 

 not likely that it was from the immediate vicinity of Bahia, as that is one of the 



