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BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



lower breast anJ aljiloinen Avbite; flanks and under tail-coverts 

 buff. 



Tlie bird from wliieb tbe description is taken was obtained on 

 tlie Mazaruni Hiver. 



JS^estliiios in down. Upper surface deep chestnut varied wiili 

 longitudinal lines of buffy-wbite on the forehead, sides of the 

 head, and neck, which are bordered and interspaced with black ; 

 middle of head, hind-neck, and lower back deep chestnut ; a buffy- 



Crax )iir/iY(. 

 Fig. 4. — To show the cliaraeter of the Ijill and the curled crest. 



white line on each side of the back which extends to the tail ; 

 the downy upper wing-coverts are broadly barred with ochreous 

 and black in one specimen and rufous and black in the other ; 

 primary and secondary quills mottled and edged with Itiifi" or 

 rufous; sides of face, fore-neck, and sides of breast pale chestnut ; 

 throat, ai)domen, and under tail-coverts white ; lower flanks and 

 binder portion of thighs rufous buff. 



