GALEATED PAUXI. 



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being shorter and thicker, and by having the 

 membrane at its base, as well as the greater por- 

 tion of the head, covered by short and serrated, 

 velvet-like feathers. 



GALEATED PAUXI. 

 (Ourax Galeata.) 



Ou. corpore atrOf mridi rdtente, ahdomine ainceque caitdce alhis^ 

 tuberculo corneo ad basin rostri ccerideo 'pyriformi, 



Pauxi with the body dark coloured, glossed with green ; the 

 abdomen and tip of the tail white 3 the base of the beak with 

 a horny, blue^ pear-shaped tubercle. 



Pauxi galeata. Temm, Gall. Ind. p, 



Crax galeata. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 624. 4. 



Crax pauxi. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 270. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1.737* 



^Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 624. 3. — Raii. Syn. 52. 5. 

 Crax Mexicanus. Briss. Orn. 1. 302. 14. 

 Le Hocco du Mexique. Buff. Ois. 2. 348. 

 Le Pierre de Cayenne. Bi^ff. PL Enl. 78. 



Pauxi a casque ou le pierre. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3.p, l.pl. A.f. 1. 

 (trachea.) 



Cushew Curassow. Glean.pl, 2g5.J'. 2. — Lath. Gen, Syn, 

 4. 696. 



Galeated Curassow. Lath, Syn, Sup. 1. 206. 



Length two feet and a half: beak with a horny 

 tubercle at its base, with grooves on the outside, 

 and the inside composed of cells : in the young 

 this is round, but in the old birds it becomes pyii- 

 form, and measures two inches and a half in 



