. Animals in menageries. the exception of the ab-domen, which is chestnut, is uniform black, glossed withgreen ; the legs alone being brown. It chiefly differsfrom all others, however, in its bill, which is shorterand stronger than in C. Alector, and it has the uppermandible more elevated ; the cere at the base is red, andit is prolonged on each side of the under mandible, * Lath. Gcii. Hist. viii. 4 184 ANIMALS IN MENAGERIES. where it forms a small rounded wattle: the orbits arenaked, but the lores feathered : the head is ornamentedwith the same sort of crest as is common to all theprec
. Animals in menageries. the exception of the ab-domen, which is chestnut, is uniform black, glossed withgreen ; the legs alone being brown. It chiefly differsfrom all others, however, in its bill, which is shorterand stronger than in C. Alector, and it has the uppermandible more elevated ; the cere at the base is red, andit is prolonged on each side of the under mandible, * Lath. Gcii. Hist. viii. 4 184 ANIMALS IN MENAGERIES. where it forms a small rounded wattle: the orbits arenaked, but the lores feathered : the head is ornamentedwith the same sort of crest as is common to all thepreceding species. Helmet Curassow. Lophoeeius galeata, Sw. (F?^^. 28.) Body black, glossed with green ; belly and tips of thetail white: base of the beak with a horny bluepear-shaped tubercle. Crax Pauxi, Linn., Auct., Latham, &c. Crax Galeata, Lath,hid. Orn. ii. 624. Le Purre de Cayenne, PI. Enl. Curassow, Edwards, pi. 292. f. 2. The GaleatedCurassow, Bennett, Zool. Gard. ii. 65. Ourase Pauxi, The form of this extraordinary bird is, perhaps, themost interesting to the scientific ornithologist of any inthe whole genus of curassow birds, inasmuch as it isthat which makes the nearest approach to the Guinea-fowls, by possessing that singular horny process onthe head for which those birds, as well as the cassowary,are alike distinguished. These processes on the headsof birds are unquestionably analogous to the horns ofquadrupeds ; and as they are only found in those birdswhich belong to the rasorial type, so are horns only HELMET CURASSOW. 185 found among those quadrupeds which belong to theruminating order. This analogy we have so amplyand repeatedly verified in our former volumes^ thatnothing more need be said upon the subject in enumerating the five types of the genus Crax *, anexperienced ornithologist will perceive that^ withoutexactly designating them as representatives of the fivetypes of the Animal Kingdom, we have so arrangedthem that the se
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