﻿692 CURASSOW. 



be elevated into a confpicuous creft ; thofe on the head, neck, 

 and breaft, comparable to velvet : the whole of the plumage is 

 black, except the belly, and under the tail, which are of a brown 

 colour, almoft like that of a Partridge : the tail is a foot in 

 length. 



This is a mere variety of the male, which, as well as the 

 female, differs exceedingly in plumage, efpecially when in a ftate 

 of domeiticity. 



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jy[ A ' LE ' Hocco, Faifan de la Guiane, PL enl. 86. 



Description. r T* HIS differs in having the tip of the tail white. 



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Var. C, Lev. Muf. 



Male. 



Description. A Further variety of the male has a white creft, tipped with 



black: the neck alternately barred with black and white; 



and the bread marked with narrow bars of white, three quarters 



of an inch afunder : the fore part of the neck is brown, as far as 



the belly j and the thighs are alfo brown : the vent is white. 



This variety is in the Leverian Mufeum-, where is one much the 



fame, except in the tail, which is barred alternate with black and 



white. 



Crax 



