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Show 1870.] MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON THE CRACID^*. 519 characters, and is identical with it in plumage ; the other, which has been recently purchased from the Jardin d'Acclimatation, is apparently darker, and has the white bands on the upper surface extremely narrow. Genus 2. NOTHOCRAX. m Type. Nothocrax, Burm. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 347 N. urumutum. NOTHOCRAX URUMUTUM. Crax urumutum, Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 49, t. 62 ; Cab. in Schomb. Guian. iii. p. 746; Reichenb. Tauben, p. 132; Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. p. 288. Urax urumutum, Burm. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 347. Rufescens, nigro vermiculata; pilei cristati plumis elongatis pen-dentibus nigris: cervice undique et corpore subtus castaneis, ventre imo in cinnamomeum trahente: cauda nigricante, rectricum pogoniis externis rufescentibus nigro vermiculatis: spatio oculari late nudo, in ave viva ceerulescenti-flavo : rostro rubro: pedibus corylinis: long, tota 24, alee 12, caudee 10, tarsi 2*6. Hab. British Guiana (Schomb.) ; Rio Negro (Spix et Natt.) ; Rio Pastaza, Upper Amazons (E. Bartlett). Mus. Brit., Vindob., Derb. Genus 3. PAUXI. _ Type* Pauxi, Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. p. 683 (1815) P. galeata. Ourax, Cuv. Regn. An. i. p. 440 (1817) P. galeata. Lophocerus, Swains. Class, of B. ii. p. 353 (1837). ... P. galeata. Urax, Reichenb. Av. Syst. Nat. p. xxvi (1842) P. galeata. PAUXI GALEATA. Crax pauxi, Linn. S. N. i. p. 270. Pierre de Cayenne, Buff. Pl. Enl. 78. Crax galeata, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 624. Pauxi galeata, Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. p. 1 et p. 683 ; Reichenb. Tauben, p. 137. Ourax pauxi, Cuv. Regn. Anim. 1817, i. p. 441 ; Bennett, Gard. & Men. ii. p. 65. Lophocerus galeatus, Swains. Classif. of B. ii. p. 353 et An. in Men. p. 184. Ourax galeata, Tsch. F. P. p. 289. Nigra ceneo nitens: ventre imo et caudee apice albis : pilei plumis brevibus, erectis: tuberculo frontali maximo, oviformi, cceruleo: rostro rubro : pedibus carneis: loris dense plumosis : long, tota 34, alee 16, caudce, 13, tarsi 4. Fem. Rufescens, nigro undulata et vermiculata, capite undique nigro : tectricum alarium et secundariorum marginibus et caudce apice albicantibus. Hab. Cayenne (Buffon) ; Rio Cassiquiari and Orinoco (Natt.); Venezuela, near Caraccas (Levraud in Mus. Paris). Mus. Brit., Paris. |