152 CURASSOW. 



lower part of the belly, vent, and thighs, white ; the tail is eleven 

 inches long, and consists of fourteen feathers, rounded at the end, 

 and black ; legs strong, dusky brown. 



In the wild state both sexes are nearly alike, but the crest is 

 smaller. It varies in having the belly barred with white ; and the 

 end of the tail of the same colour. 



These are frequent at Guiana, and are called Powese, from their 

 cry, which is supposed to imitate that word ; are pretty numerous in 

 the woods, and make great part of the food of the planters, being 

 supplied by the Indian hunters ; the flesh reckoned delicate, being 

 much like that of a Turkey. Are frequently brought up tame, and 

 common in the Dutch Settlements of Berbice, Essequibo, and De- 

 merary ; are called at Brazil, Curasso, and by some, Peacock 

 Pheasant, and Mutum. 



We learn that they breed freely in the Menageries of Holland, 

 and have also done the same in this kingdom, but the climate of 

 either does not seem sufficiently warm for their nature. 



The construction of the trachea, or windpipe, is curious, not 

 going into the breast bone at once as usual in most birds, but making 

 a bend downwards, increases in breadth, and is flattened ; it then 

 rises upwards, becomes smaller, and proceeds to the lungs. This is 

 represented in the various plates referred to. 



2— RED CURASSOW.— Pl. cxxiii. 



Crax rubra, Lin, i. 270. Gm, Lin. i. 73C. 



— — Alector, femina, Ind. Orn. ii. 623. 



— — globicera hybrida, Temm. Pig. Sf Gall. 8vo. iii. p. 25. 



Peruvianus, Bris. i. 305. Id. 8vo. i. 86. Klein, Av. 112. 4 ? 



Hocco de Perou, Bit/, ii. 375. pl. 14. PI. enl. 125. 

 Coxolitli, Raii, p. 57. Temm. Pig. fy Gall. 8vo. iii. p. 21. 

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

 Crested Curassow, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 693. pl. Ixiii. 



THIS is a beautiful Species ; the size much the same as the last. 

 Bill gibbous at the base, the colour of yellow oker, with a brown 



