156 CURASSOW. 



5.— BLUE CURASSOW. 



SIZE of a female Turkey. Bill very much elevated and rounded 

 above ; nostrils not far from the base, the under mandible moderate ; 

 colour of the bill red ; round the eyes not well clothed with feathers; 

 the general colour of the plumage fine blue ; feathers of the crown 

 long, forming a crest, inclining backwards; from the breast to the 

 thighs greenish yellow; the lower belly, vent, and thighs deep 

 ferruginous ; tail long, rounded at the end ; two or more of the 

 middle feathers blue for more than half from the base, the rest of 

 the length dusky, or brownish black; the others blue at the base, 

 then dusky yellow, and finally brownish black, but the ends of all 

 incline to blue; legs brown, segments remarkably rough and scaly. 



Inhabits Sierra Leona ; the above account taken from a drawing 

 of the bird by Gen. Davies, who copied it from a preserved specimen. 

 I find it also among the drawings of Mr. Dent. In General Davies's 

 figure the feathers on the crown form a tuft of two or three series, 

 standing upright, and are rounded at the tips, and these are wholly 

 deep black. 



6. -RAZOR-BILLED CURASSOW. 



Crax Mitu, Lin. i. 270. Gm. Lin.h. 736. /3. Rail, Syn.b<2. 4. Will. 1 14. t. 28. Id. 



Engl. 160. iv. Germ, ii. t. 228. Ind. Orn. ii. 623. /3. Marcg. Bras. t. p. 194. 



Johnst. Av. 153. t. 58. 

 Pauxi Mitu, Temm. Pig. Sf Gall. 8vo. iii. p. 8.— and Tab. Anat. iv. f. 2.— the Bill. 

 Crax Brasiliensis, Bris. i. 296. Id. 8vo. i. 83. 

 Hocco de la Guiane, Tab. Enc. Orn. p. 174. 

 Crested Curassow, Gen. Si/n. iv. 691. A. 



SIZE of a Cock; length two feet and a half. Bill of a bright 

 carnation-colour, crooked at the point, and above continued into a 

 rounded prominence, one inch and three quarters in height ; nostrils 



