﻿CURASSOW. 



693 



Crax rubra, Lin. Syji. i. p. 270. z. 



Le Hoccs de Perou, Brif. orn. i. p. 305. 16.— Buf. oif. ii. p. 375. pi. 14. — 



PI. enl. 123. 

 Coxilitli, Rati Syrt. p. 57 ? 

 Red Peruvian Hen, Albin. iii. pi. 40. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Q I Z E of the male. Bill afh-coloured : irides red : cere and 

 creft as the male ; the feathers of the laft white, tipped with 

 black: the head, and hind part of the neck, deep afh- colour : 

 the fore part of the neck, and the reft of the plumage, red 

 brown : tail plain dufky black : legs brown. 



The female alfo varies much. In one I obferved the neck to 

 be barred alternately white and black, as in fome of the males : 

 the lower part of the belly, and vent, white : tail plain brown. 



In the Leverian Mujeum is alfo another, of a reddifh brown, 

 barred all over of a cream-colour. 



But the moft beautiful variety which I have yet feen, is in 

 my own collection. In this the general colour is red brown ; 

 paleft on the under parts : the bill the colour of yellow oker, 

 with a brown tip : fides of the head covered with feathers, and 

 black : creft white, tipped with black : the whole of the neck 

 encircled with alternate rings of black and white : the tail red 

 brown, crofted with eight or nine bars of yellowifh white, 

 ermined with dufky fpots, and bounded above and below with: 

 blackifh : the legs are yellowifh : claws dufky, 



3 The.- 



1. 



CRESTED C. 

 The Female. 



Description. 



Var. A,. 



Var. B„ 



4- Var. C. 

 Pi. LXIII. 



