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Show 506 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON THE CRACIDyE. [June 9, Temminck is founded ; (2) el Yacu-caraguata = Ortalida canicollis of Wagler; (3) el Yacu-apati = P. jacutinga of Spix ; and (4) el Mitu, a good species, united by subsequent authors with Crax alector, till Mr. Gray named it Crax sclateri. (1811.) Humboldt, in his ' Recueil d'Observations de Zoologie' (vol. i. p. 4), describes a new Ortalida from tbe River Magdalena, and calls it Phasianus garrulus ( = Ortalida garrula). (1815.) Temminck, in the second volume of his 'Histoire Naturelle des Pigeons et des Gallinaces,' gives an excellent account of what was then known of the Cracidee, referring them to three genera of his " Aves gallinee,''' namely Pauxi, Crax, and Penelope. The genus Pauxi is here first established for P. galeata and P. mitu. In Crax Temminck places C. globicera (*= C. daubentoni), C. rubra (•= C. globicera $ ), C. alector, and C. carunculata, the last species being now described for the first time. Of Penelope he gives seven species, two of which are now first established, viz. P. obscura upon Azara's " Yacuhu," and P. superciliaris. These both stand good. Temminck unites Ortalida with Penelope. He also gives good anatomical descriptions and figures of the larynges and tongues of several of the species of Cracidee. (1823.) In the 'General History of Birds' (vol. viii.), Latham arranges the Cracidee known to him in two genera of his Gallinaceous order, "Guan" and "Curassow." To the former he assigns eleven species, to the latter eight species. Little original matter is given. (1823.) In the twenty-sixth livraison of the 'Planches Coloriees' Temminck publishes an article on the genus Ourax (=• Pauxi), and gives a good figure of Ourax mitu (-*= Mitua tuberosa). (1825.) Spix, in the second volume of his ' Aves Brasilienses,' describes and figures seven species of Crax and seven of Penelope, V1Z* : Of this Synopsis. (1) Crax fasicolata = C. pinima (?). (2) C. urumutum = Nothocrax urumutum. (3) C. tomentosa = Mitua tomentosa. (4) C. blumenbachii = C. globicera $ (?). (5) C. globulosa = C. globulosa. (6) C. rubrirostris = C. carunculata. (7) C. tuberosa = Mitua tuberosa. (1) Penelope jacuacu = P. boliviano (?). (2) P. jacucaca = P. jacucaca. (3) P. jacutinga = P. jacutinga. (4) P. jacupeba = P. jacupeba. (5) P.jacupemba = P. superciliaris. (6) P. guttata = Ortalida guttata. (7) P. araucuan = O. araucuan. As is well known, neither Spix's figures nor his descriptions are very accurate ; and until the original type specimens have been examined, some of these determinations must remain doubtful. But Spix has certainly added greatly to our knowledge of the group. Not less than three species of Cracinee (viz. Nothocrax urumutum, Mitua |