. Animals in menageries. doesnot appear that the keepers have been successful inbreeding them, as was formerly, and, as we hear, is now,practised in Holland. We hope and trust, however^ stillto hear this object has been accomphshed. Globe-billed globicera, Li7in. (Fig. 26.) Body, above and beneath, black ; abdomen white : billwith a gibbous protuberance in front; orbits slightlynaked and black, divided from the yellow cere. Crax globicera, Linn., Auct., Temminck, Gall. Ind. 686. HoccoFencholi, Temtn. Gall. in. \2. YLocco, Buffon, PI. Curassow Cock, Edwards, 295. fig
. Animals in menageries. doesnot appear that the keepers have been successful inbreeding them, as was formerly, and, as we hear, is now,practised in Holland. We hope and trust, however^ stillto hear this object has been accomphshed. Globe-billed globicera, Li7in. (Fig. 26.) Body, above and beneath, black ; abdomen white : billwith a gibbous protuberance in front; orbits slightlynaked and black, divided from the yellow cere. Crax globicera, Linn., Auct., Temminck, Gall. Ind. 686. HoccoFencholi, Temtn. Gall. in. \2. YLocco, Buffon, PI. Curassow Cock, Edwards, 295. fig. 1. According to the description of the authors abovequoted, the plumage of this species is precisely the sameas that of the last; the difference between them chiefly,if not exclusively, consisting in this having a globulartubercle, about the size of a hazel nut, or cherry, at thebase of the bill, which is covered in that part, as in thelast species, by a lively yellow skin: the naked part of GLOBE-BILLED CUIJASSOW. 181. ri^^a*.::: the head, around the eye, isvery small, and is black in-stead of yellow; it is alsoseparated from the cere byfeathers, instead of formingone continuous naked space,joining the bill: the nostrilsare placed in the cere, andare situated before and belowthe tubercle; the rest of thebill, and also the legs, arehorn colour. The female isstated to be almost exactlylike the male : and both ap-pear to have a similarlyformed crest to the last. Inthe young, the tubercle only assumes the shape of aslight prominence ; and the plumage is of a duller black,transversely lineated with white; these lines disappear-ing as the bird advances in age. The adult plumage isgenerally acquired in the second year. Between this species and the next we shall describe,namely, the Crax rubra, a hybrid breed is said to havebeen produced, having the following colours : — Theplumage, in general, was dull blackish brown ; the ab-domen rufous, where C. globicera is white; the crestva
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