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on the Breeding Habits, of Heck's Curassow.



vegetable food, and I have frequently seen the mother sum¬

mon them for pieces of bread and broken up ground-nuts given

to her by passing visitors.



Whether the cock bird would have taken any part in feed¬

ing the chickens I do not know. He had to be taken away

because it was impossible to attend to the wants of the hen and



Hen of Heck's Curassow, feeding her io -weeks old chick.



