. A general synopsis of birds . a confpicuous creft; thofe on the head, neck,and breaft, comparable to velvet: the whole of the plumage isblack, except the belly, and under the tail, which are of a browncolour, almoft like that of a Partridge: the tail is a foot inlength. This is a mere variety of the male, which, as well as thefemale, differs exceedingly in plumage, efpecially when in a ftateof domeiticity. ;. jy[ALE Hocco, Faifan de la Guiane, PL enl. 86. Description. rT* HIS differs in having the tip of the tail white. i. Var. C, Lev. Muf. Male. Description. A Further variety of the male ha
. A general synopsis of birds . a confpicuous creft; thofe on the head, neck,and breaft, comparable to velvet: the whole of the plumage isblack, except the belly, and under the tail, which are of a browncolour, almoft like that of a Partridge: the tail is a foot inlength. This is a mere variety of the male, which, as well as thefemale, differs exceedingly in plumage, efpecially when in a ftateof domeiticity. ;. jy[ALE Hocco, Faifan de la Guiane, PL enl. 86. Description. rT* HIS differs in having the tip of the tail white. i. Var. C, Lev. Muf. Male. Description. A Further variety of the male has a white creft, tipped with black: the neck alternately barred with black and white; and the bread marked with narrow bars of white, three quarters of an inch afunder: the fore part of the neck is brown, as far as the belly j and the thighs are alfo brown : the vent is white. This variety is in the Leverian Mufeum-, where is one much the fame, except in the tail, which is barred alternate with black and white. Crax 4M. , f/rs/ r/vj/ea C// rafew-?^ CURASSOW. 693 Crax rubra, Lin. Syji. i. p. 270. z. Le Hoccs de Perou, Brif. orn. i. p. 305. 16.—Buf. oif. ii. p. 375. pi. 14.— PI. enl. , Rati Syrt. p. 57 ?Red Peruvian Hen, Albin. iii. pi. 40. Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. Q IZ E of the male. Bill afh-coloured : irides red : cere andcreft as the male; the feathers of the laft white, tipped withblack: the head, and hind part of the neck, deep afh-colour:the fore part of the neck, and the reft of the plumage, redbrown : tail plain dufky black : legs brown. The female alfo varies much. In one I obferved the neck tobe barred alternately white and black, as in fome of the males :the lower part of the belly, and vent, white : tail plain brown. In the Leverian Mujeum is alfo another, of a reddifh brown,barred all over of a cream-colour. But the moft beautiful variety which I have yet feen, is inmy own collection. In this the general colour is red brown ;paleft on the under pa
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