. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. Zoo Notes 215 adult American animal, which is much more developed with regard to bisontine charac- teristics than is the European species. Tee handsome, somewhat turkey-like birds known as Curassows attract considerable attention at the Zoological Gardens owing to their tameness and striking appearance, although they are not brilliantly coloured. The bird represented (Crax globicera) is a female, and is mostly brown in colour, the male being black with a yellow rounded knob on the bill. The curassows are mostly S
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. Zoo Notes 215 adult American animal, which is much more developed with regard to bisontine charac- teristics than is the European species. Tee handsome, somewhat turkey-like birds known as Curassows attract considerable attention at the Zoological Gardens owing to their tameness and striking appearance, although they are not brilliantly coloured. The bird represented (Crax globicera) is a female, and is mostly brown in colour, the male being black with a yellow rounded knob on the bill. The curassows are mostly South-American birds, and spend much of their time in trees, their hind-toe, unlike that of most game- birds, being well- developed, and giving them a good grip of the branches. They also build in trees, laying only a few eggs in a nest of sticks. The young perch at once, and move actively about aloft. They have seldom bred in cap- tivity in England, but this may be because suitable accommoda- tion has been wanting. However, even in their native country they are not good breeders, which is a pity, as their flesh is excellent and their tree-haunting habits enable them to procure food, in the form of various berries and fruits, not acces- sible to ordinary poultry. Specimens which had escaped from the menagerie of the late ex-king of Oude, near Calcutta, have, it is said, been seen wild in the Sunderbunds, and it would be useful to make a serious attempt to introduce these fine game-birds there. The Ostrich shown is an example of the South African form of the Cape Ostrich, species which lived some years at the Zoo, but is now dead. It is this race which is kept on the ostrich. Paca. Fhcto by W. P. Dando, SPOTTED farms, and a very valuable account of its habits in this condition has been published by Mr. Cronwright Schreiner in the "Zoologist" for March, 1897. Having been occupied in ostrich-farming for nine years, Mr. Schreiner had opportunities of correcting many
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