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GAME-BIRDS. 
curassow (Crax alector) has the plumage of both sexes very similar, but the female, 
shown in the foreground of the cut, has the crest barred with white. This bird is 
a native of the forests of British Guiana and Northern Brazil, extending into 
Colombia. Distinguished by the purple gloss on the upper-parts, and the absence 
of a swollen knob at the base of the upper, and of a wattle on the base of the 
crested curassows (l nat. size). 
lower mandible of the male, it has the cere and base of the bill yellow, and the 
extremity horny blue, while the legs and feet are horn-coloured. Being easily 
tamed, and affording excellent food, these birds are often domesticated. 
Passing over the smaller rufous coloured urumutu ( Nothocrax 
Mituas. ® x 
urumutum), from British Guiana and the Upper Amazons, distin¬ 
guished by its crest of recumbent feathers, and the naked space in front of the eye, 
we come to the three species of mituas, which are as large as the curassows, with 
