158 CURASSOW. 



pear, and not unlike it in shape : this is very hard, and in colour a 

 fine blue; the base of the under mandible is also blue ; the plumage 

 in general glossy, purplish, blue black, but the lower belly, under 

 tail coverts, and tip of the tail, are white; legs pale red. 



The female has those parts brown, which are red in the male. 



Inhabits Mexico ; but is either a more rare bird, or less valued ; 

 as we do not see it so often in our Menageries. 



The windpipe of this bird affords no less a singularity, than 

 before observed in the Crested Species. It is greatly elongated, and 

 continues first downwards the whole length of the pectoral muscle, 

 after which it makes a double, and ascends again before it enters the 

 cavity of the chest. 



8.— GALEATED CURASSOW. 



Crax galeata, Ind. Orn. ii. 624. 



— — vertice cono corneo onusto, Bris. 8vo. i. p. 87. 



Galeated Curassow, Gen. Syn. Sup. 206. 



THIS is almost as large as a Turkey. Bill and legs red ; on the 

 crown of the head a horny substance, about two inches in height, 

 broad at the bottom, and ending in a blunt point, like a helmet ; 

 the general colour of the plumage black, except the vent, and under 

 tail coverts, which are white. 



Inhabits Curassow, and is probably the same as the Cushew 

 Species. 



