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The Hijlory of ANIMALS, 
Pavo grifeus corona aurea . 
The grey Pavo> with a golden creft> 
This is a very beautiful fpecies: the body is of the bulk of that of our ordinary 
peacock, but the neck is fhorter and thicker : the head is fmall, and of an oblong 
form; the beak is fhort, robuft:, and a little hooked at the point: the crown of the 
head is ornamented with a fine downy creft, of an orange yellow, though with left 
of the reddifh tinge in it, than we ufually exprefs by that phrafe: the eyes are large 
and piercing, and the opening of the mouth is much larger than would be conceived 
from the length of the beak, but it’s angles reach very nearly to the eyes : the back is 
of a dufky grey, with a tinge of brown : the wings are moderately long, and their 
principal feathers are black, with very little variegation: the tail is long and beautiful; 
the legs are robuft and grey. 
It is a native of the Eaft ; few of the writers on birds have defcribed it. The Ba¬ 
learic crane, referred by Linnaeus and fome others to this genus, is defcribed among 
the Ardeae. 
C R A X. 
T H E feet of the Crax have each four toes: the head is ornamented with a 
feathered creft. 
Crax niger corolla alho nigroque varia. 
The black Crax , with a black and white creft . 
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This is a ftately and elegant bird : the head is large, and well covered with feathers; 
the eyes are large, and very bright and piercing; the apertures of the ears patulous 
and broad: the beak is fhort, but very robuft, thick at the bafe, ana pointed at the 
extremity, and there a little hooked : on the top of the head there ftands a very ele¬ 
gant creft of mottled black and white feathers, which is not ered but revolute : the 
neck is fhort, but thick; the body corpulent: the colour of the whole bird is black; 
the wings are moderately large, and their principal feathers are blackeft of all: the 
legs are robuft, but not very long ; they are of a very deep grey, approaching to black: 
the toes are long and robuft ; the claws thick, but fhort and obtufe, and of a deep 
black. 
This is a native of the Eaft, and of many parts of America. Sir Hans Sloane calls 
it Gallus Indicus ; and the French writers have named it, as if from him, Coq. In¬ 
dein, 
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Crax niger corolla atra y roftro rubro . 
The black Crax , with a black creft y 
and a red beak . 
%\)t Macft, croilmeB, 
3fnBiau Cocft* 
This is a large and majeftic bird, and is not without it’s beauty, though of one 
fimple colour : the head is large, and fomewhat depreffed on the crown : the eyes are 
large and bright j the ears patulous, and furrounded with a double feries of fhort arid 
iemi-ere<ft feathers: the beak is fhort, robuft, formed exa&ly like that of the com¬ 
mon cock, but of a fcarlet colour: the creft is moderately large, revolute, and of a 
deep and glofiy black, as is alfo the whole bird. 
The wings are fhort, and the tail is not fo long as in the former fpecies: the legs 
are very robuft, and of a deep colourj the toes long, and armed with large black 
claws. 
This 
