154 curtASSow. 



B.—Ind. Om. ii. 624. y. Gen. Syn. iv. 693. Var. B. 



The plumage in this is reddish brown, barred all over with 

 cream-colour, and is a young bird. One similar to this was hatched 

 in the Menagerie at Osterley Park. 



C. — Autre hybride, &c. Temm. Pig. Sf Gall. 8vo. iii. p. 43. 



Length two feet and a half. Cheeks naked ; bill horn-colour ; 

 crest white, with the end black; head, neck, breast, and upper part 

 of the back, plain black ; wings, quills, and upper tail coverts, 

 barred pale rufous and black ; tail black, crossed with distant, yel- 

 lowish white bands, and ending with the same ; under parts of the 

 body, from the breast, plain yellowish rufous. 



This M. Temminck esteems a Variety, between the Red and 

 Globose Species. 



3.— GLOBOSE CURASSOW. 



Crax globicera, Ind. Orn. ii. 624. Lin. i. 695. Gm. Lin. i. 736. Boroicsk. ii. 171. 



— Curassons, Bris. i. 300. Id. 8vo. i. 85. 



Mituporanga, Curassavia, Gerin. ii. pi. 229. 



Gallus Indicus alius, Klein, 111. 3. Raii, 52. 7. Will. 110. 115. Gerin. ii. 79. t. 229. 



Hocco Teucholi, Temm. Pig. 8f Gall. Svo. iii. p. 13. PI. enl. 86.— young-. 



Another Indian Cock, Will. Engl. p. 162. 



Curassow Cock and Hen, Albin, ii. pi. 31. 32. Edw. pi. 295. 1. 



Globose Curassow, Gen. Syn. iv. 695. 



SIZE of the last. Bill yellow, with a cinereous tip ; over the 

 nostrils a round knob, like a cherry, very hard, and of a tine yellow ; 

 irides red ; round the eyes white ; on the head the feathers are long, 

 and form a crest, which points forwards ; the colour black, with 



