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520 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON THE CRACIDAE. [June 9, Buffon assigns Cayenne as the habitat of this Curassow; but Scbomburgk does not mention it as found in British Guiana. A more certain locality is the Rio Cassiquiari and Upper Orinoco, where Natterer, although he did not collect specimens, obtained certain evidence of its existence (Cf. Von Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. p. 289). Specimens of this bird in the Paris Museum were transmitted from Caraccas by M . Levraud. Tschudi states that it occurs in Eastern Pern. This is possible, but we have never seen it in collections from tbe Upper Amazon*. Genus 4. MITUA. _ Type. Mitu, Less. Trait. d'Orn. ii. p. 485 (1831) .... M. tuberosa. Mitua, Strickl. Ann. Nat. Hist. vii. p. 36 (1841) M. tuberosa. Claris specierum. a. rostri culmine cultrato: caudae apice albo 1. M. tuberosa. b. rostri culmine rotundato: caudte apice rufo 2. M. tomentosa. 1. MITUA TUBEROSA. Crax mitu, Linn. S. N. i. p. 270. Pauxi mitu, Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 8, 685. Mitu brasiliensis, Reichenb. Columb. p. 137. Ourax mitu, Cuv. Reg. An. 1817, i. p. 441 ; Temm. Pl. Col. 153 ; Bennett, Gard. and Men. ii. p. 129. Urax mitu, Burm. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 349. Crax tuberosa, Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 51, t. 67 a. Mitua tuberosa, Bates, Nat. on the Amazon, ii. p. 112. Urax tuberosa, Burm. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 348. Ourax erythrorhynchus, Swains. Classif. of B. ii. p. 352, et An. in Men. p. 187. Urax eythrorhynchus, Cab. in Schomb. Guian. iii. p. 747. Nigra, purpurascente perfusa: ventre imo castaneo: caudce apice albo : loris dense plumosis: pilei plumis elongatis, retroductis culmine valde elevato, antice cultrato, postice et supra nares in­crassato, rubro: pedibus rubris: long, tota 33, alee 14, caudce 12, tarsi 4. Fem. Mari similis. Hab. British Guiana (Schomb.) ; Pard, Rio Madeira, Mato Grosso (Natterer) ; Rio Tapajos (Bates) ; Eastern Peru, Chamicurros (E. Bartlett). Mus. Brit., Vindob., S.-G. 2. MITUA TOMENTOSA. Crax tomentosa, Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 49, t. 63. Pauxi tomentosa, Gr. R. Gray, Gen. of B. iii. p. 487. * Since this paper was written, the Society have received two living males of this species direct from Santa Martha along with a female of Crax alberti. It is probable, therefore, that Pauxi galeata is likewise found in the valley of the Magdalena.