RED CURASSOW. 



belly white ; lower part, vent, and thighs, pale 

 yellowish brown. 



One figured by Albin has the globose tubercle : 

 the cere is yellow ; the body is black, barred with 

 rufous, as in the last, during its young state : its 

 tail is black, barred alternately with white : the 

 neck is barred with the same ; and the crest is 

 white, with a black tip : vent white. 



Native of Guiana, particularly about Curassow. 



RED CDRASSOW. 

 (Crax rubra.) 



Cr. spadicea, cervice collogue superne lineis alternis alhis ei 



nigris, cerd nigra, caiidd Jasciis novem albo-luteis, 7iigro- 



marginatis, temporibus plumis, tectis. 

 Chesnut-coloured Curassow the nape and upper parts of the 



neck with alternate lines of white and black j the cere black j 



the tail with nine whitish yellow fasciae^ edged with black j 



the temples covered with feathers. 

 Crax rubra. Temm. Gall. Ind. p. QSJ. — Linn, Syst. Nat. 1. 27O. 



I.—Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 736. 

 Crax peruvianus. Briss, Orri. 1. 305. I6. 

 Hocco Coxilitli. Temm. Pig. et Gall. v. 3- p. 21. 

 Coxilitli. Raii. Syn.p. 57. 

 Red Peruvian Hen. Albin. Birds, v. 3. pi. 40. 

 Hen crested Curassow. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 693. c. pi. 63. 

 Var. j8. dij^ert aprecedente, corpore spadicea atro ; collo inferiore^ 



pectore, rectricibusque intermediis atris. 



