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Show 1870.] MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON THE CRACIDJE. 517 6. CRAX CARUNCULATA. Crax carunculata, Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 44, 690 (1815) ; Sw. An. in Men. p. 183. Crax rubrirostris, Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 51, t. 67; Max. Beitr. iv. p. 528. Crax blumenbachii, Burm. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 345. Crax yarrellii, Bennett, Gard. and Men. ii. p. 227; Yarrell, P. Z. S. 1830-1, p. 33; Sw. An. in Men. p. 188 ; Jard. et Selby, 111. Orn. iv. pl. vi. Nitenti-nigra : ventre imo crissoque albis: crista nigra, versus apicem recurva: loris nudis : ceree tuberculo parvo et caruncula utrinque ad basin mandibulee rubris: pedibus carneis: long, tota 34, alee, 15*5, caudee 13*5, tarsi 4. Fem. Mari similis, sed crista albo fasciolata et ventre imo crissoque rufis. Hab. Wood-region of S.E. Brazil from Rio to Bahia (Max. et Burm.). Mus. Brit. This Curassow is easily distinguishable by its red bill, and has therefore been less often confounded with other species than most of its congeners. Burmeister, however, bas united it to Crax blumenbachii of Spix, supposing that Spix's figure (Av. Bras. ii. t. 64) may represent the female of the present bird. This we cannot agree to. Spix's plate obviously represents the female of C. globicera, or of some allied species of which we do not yet know the male. If his locality (Rio) be correct, the latter is probably the case. 7. CRAX ALBERTI. Crax alberti, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 246, t. 27; Gray, List of Gallinee, p. 15 ; Reichenb. Tauben, p. 136. Crax mikani 2 » Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. p. 343 (?). Nitenti-nigra: ventre imo, crisso et caudee apice albis: crista brevi, recurva, nigra: loris dense plumosis.- ceree tuberculo mandibulee carunculis cceruleis : rostri apice corneo: pedibus plumbeis. Fem. Nigra : crista albo fasciolata: dorso, alis extus et cauda albo anguste transfasciatis: remigibus externis et abdomine toto castaneis: ventre medio crissoque pallidioribus : pedibus pallide carneis. Hab. New Granada. Mus. Brit., Paris., S.-G. Mr. Fraser first described this Curassow, which may be readily known by its densely feathered lores and blue wattles, from a specimen living in the aviaries at Knowsley in 1850. It is, however, obvious that the bird described by him as the female of C. alberti is not the true female of this species, but that of Crax globicera. Crax alberti is now not unfrequently brought alive to this country. There have been of late years several males in the Society's Gardens ; and at the present time there is one female. Its correct habitat has |