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GLOBE-BEARING CURASSOW. 

 (Crax globicera.) 



Cr, corpore nigro, ahdomine subtus albo ; pennis in vertice crispis 



atris ; tiiberculo ad basin rostri rotundato lato, magnitudine 



cerasi, cera luted ; caudd apice alba, 

 Curassow with a black body; the abdomen beneath white; the 



feathers of the crown contracted and dark coloured ; a broad 



rounded tubercle at the base of the beak, about the size of a 



cherry j the cere yellow^ and the tip of the tail white. 

 Crax globicera. Linn. Syst, Nat, 1. 695. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 



736. — Lath, Ind, Orn. 2. 624. 3. — Temm. Gall, Ind, p. 686. 

 Gallus indicus alius. Rati. Syn. 52. p. 7. 

 Crax Curassons. Briss. Orn, 1. 300. 13. 

 Hocco, Faisan de la Guiane. Buff. PI. EnL 86. young. 

 Hocco Teucholi. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. 12. 

 Curassow Cock. Jlbin. 2. pi, 31. — Edw. Glean.pl. 2g5.f. 1. 

 Globose Curassow. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 6g5. 2. 

 Var. /3. obscure Jusca ; ventre supremo albo ; caudd nigra ; Jasciis 



quatuor albis ; crista, penned remlutcE, apice alba. 

 Dull brown 3 the upper part of the belly white ; the tail black, 



with four white fascia; the feathers of the crest revoluted and 



tipped with white. 

 Crax globicera hybrida. (l.) Temm. Gall. Ind. p. 687- 

 Globose Curassow, female. Lath, Gen. Syn. 4. 695. 2. 

 Var. y . cerd Jlavd ; corpore nigra rufo fasciato ; cristd alba, 



apice nigrd ; collo albo nigroque fasciato. 

 With a yellow cere j the body black, fasciated with rufous ; the 

 crest white, with a black tip 3 and the neck fasciated with 

 white and black. 

 Crax globicera hybrida. (2.) Temm, Gall, Ind. p, 687. 

 Crax Alector. var. ^. Lath, Ind, Orn, 2. 623. 1. 

 Crested Curassow, var. c. Lath. Gen, Syn, 4, 692. 1. 

 Curassow Hen. Albin, Birds, 2. pL 32. 



