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CURASSOW. 



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CUSHEW C. 



Description. 



Female* 



Pl 



ACE. 



Crax Pauxi, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 270. 5. 



Le Hocco du Mexique, Brif. orn. i. p. 302. i\. — Buf. oif. ii. p. 34SJ. 



Le Pierre de Cayenne, Pl. enl. 78. 



Pauxi, Rati Sjn. p. 52. 5. — Will. orn. p. 161. 394.. 



Cufhew Bird, Ediv. pl. 295. f. 2. 



Z.ra. Muf. 



C I Z E of the others, but rather of a more elegant make. Bill 

 red : at the bafe of the forehead is a very large gibbofity, as 

 big as a fmall pear, and not unlike it in fhape ; this is very hard, 

 and of a fine blue colour; the bafe of the mandible is alfo blue: 

 the plumage is of a gloffy purplifh blue black, except the lower 

 belly, under tail coverts, and tip of the tail, which are white : 

 the legs are pale red : claws black. 



The female differs only in having thofe parts brown which are 

 red in the male. 



Thefe inhabit Mexico. 



4. Le Chacamel, Buf. oif. ii. p. 394.. 



CRYING C. Chachalacametl, Fern. Bift. N. H. ch. 41.— Raii Syn. p. 163. 



Description, ^HE bird here fpoken of is mentioned by Fernandez, who gives 



a very flight defcription ; viz. that the bill is blueifh : the 



back brown : the breaft blue : and the belly of a whitifh brown : 



and that it is of the fame fize with the others. 



Place. This inhabits Mexico, and cries like other Fowls, or rather 



like the whole family of the Poultry -yard together; for it is fo 



loud and fo continual, that one of thefe often makes more 



noife than all the reft of them put together. The Mexican name 



Chachalacametl, fignifies Crying Bird. This is faid to frequent 



mountainous places, as the Curajbws, do, where it brings up 



the young. 



Genus 



