OF BIRDS. 19 
The Indians imitate their cry very nearly, and 
fo as to deceive the birds, who, by anfwering the 
cry, difcover where they are. 
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Genus 61. eR a xX, 
Tue CURASSOW., 
‘The bill is covered at the bafe with a cere, where there 
js frequently a large knob. 
The head moftly adorned with a creft of feathers, curls 
ing at the ends, . 
HE Crefted Curaflow or Powefe, ‘The 
cere is yellow, the plumage on the body 
black, on the ftomach white. It is about the 
fize of the common Cock. ‘The cere takes up 
more than half the beak, both upon the upper 
and lower mandible ; the tongue is intire. The 
feathers of the neck are foft and velvety ; the 
temples bald and black ; the tail is rounded, and 
~ confifts of fourteen feathers. It has no fpurs. 
The wings of this bird are fhort, and its flight 
heavy ; its creft is between two and three inches 
long, it reaches from the bafe of the beak, to the 
back of the head, and is compofed of twifted 
black feathers, inclining rather backward, but 
: curling 
