. A dictionary of birds . (After Swiiinsou.) Distribution which are considered elsewhere. But at present totreat of the Cracinx, the two authors aboA^e mentioned recognize 4good genera:— Crax with a soft cere, and the nostrils placed inthe middle of the maxilla, Avhile the remain-ing three have the whole of the bill hornyand the nostrils at its base, the lores beingbare in Nothocrax, but feathered in Pauxis(Cashew-bird) and Mitua, the former ofwhich bears the curious frontal -j^ knob alreadymentioned, Avhilethe latter has theculmen of its shortand greatly com-pressed bill ele-vated and swollen
. A dictionary of birds . (After Swiiinsou.) Distribution which are considered elsewhere. But at present totreat of the Cracinx, the two authors aboA^e mentioned recognize 4good genera:— Crax with a soft cere, and the nostrils placed inthe middle of the maxilla, Avhile the remain-ing three have the whole of the bill hornyand the nostrils at its base, the lores beingbare in Nothocrax, but feathered in Pauxis(Cashew-bird) and Mitua, the former ofwhich bears the curious frontal -j^ knob alreadymentioned, Avhilethe latter has theculmen of its shortand greatly com-pressed bill ele-vated and further par-ticulars of the Curassows may be gathered from two other papersby ]\Ii-. Sclater (Trans. Zool Soc. ix. pp. 273-288, pis. 40-53, and 543-546, pis. 89-95), which are illustrated copiously and mostlyfrom living examples, for these birds thrive well in confinement,though the hopes once entertained of their capacity for domestica-tion have been disappointed.^ The Cracida} are one of the mostcharacteri
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