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white tips, which are a little bent; the rest of the plumage black, 

 except the lower belly, vent, and across the thighs, which are white ; 

 legs pale ferruginous : in some the tail is white. 

 Both sexes are much alike. 



A. — This Variety has the head and neck behind black; the crest 

 black, with a white band ; some of the neck feathers tipped with 

 white; fore part of the neck and breast, back and wings, dull brown; 

 upper part of the belly white, with some of the feathers tipped with 

 black ; the lower part, vent, and thighs, pale yellowish brown ; tail 

 black, crossed with four broad white bands; knob of the bill as in 

 the male, but both bill and legs are ash-colour. 



Inhabits Guiana, especially about Curassow, and seems to be a 

 mere Variety of the former species. M. Temminck esteems it to be 

 a mixed breed between the Globose and Red Species. 



4.— WATTLED CURASSOW. 



Crax carunculata, Pauxi a bavbillons, Temm. Pig. Sf Gall. Svo. iii. p. 44. pi. 4. f. 3. — 

 the Head. 



THIS has a shorter bill, but stronger than in the Crested Species, 

 and the upper mandible more elevated ; the cere at the base red, and 

 reaches to the base of the lower mandible on each side, finishing 

 in a round caruncle, or wattle ; round the eye naked : at the hind- 

 head a set of upright feathers, broader at the ends* and bent, or 

 twisted : the whole of the plumage, without exception, is black, 

 with a greenish gloss, as in the Crested One. 



Inhabits Brazil ; the manners totally unknown, as M. Temminck 

 has seen only one, preserved there, and sent into Europe. 



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