POULTRY 



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CURASSOWS AND GUANS. 



EAVING the pigeons, we now come to the large and important order of birds, 



termed scientifically the Gallinse, and, more popularly, the Poultry. Sometimes 



they are termed Rasores, or scrapers, from their habit of scraping up the ground 



in search of food. To this order belong our domestic poultry, the grouse, par- 



/ww^ri fridges, and quails, the turkeys, pheasants, and many other useful and interesting 



birds. In almost every instance the Gallinse are handsome birds, and interesting in 



their habits, but as their number is legion, and our space is rapidly diminishing, 



we must content ourselves with such species as afford the best types of the order to which 



they belong. 



CRESTED CFHASSOW.— 0-o.r alector. 



Our first example of these birds is the Crested Curassow, the representative of the 

 genus Crax, in which are to he found a number of truly splendid birds. All the Curassows 

 are natives of tropical America, and are found almost wholly in the forests. 



