. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 306 THE BALD FRUIT CROW. The Bare-necked Fruit Crow inhabits Brazil and Guiana, and is far from uncommon in those countries. It is not a very large bird, hardly equalling the common jackdaw in size, but is worthy of notice on account of the peculiarity from which it derives its popular name. Instead of being covered with the usual plumage, the upper part of the head, the back of the neck, and the throat are clothed with very minute and closely-set feathers of a very deep black, so that t
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 306 THE BALD FRUIT CROW. The Bare-necked Fruit Crow inhabits Brazil and Guiana, and is far from uncommon in those countries. It is not a very large bird, hardly equalling the common jackdaw in size, but is worthy of notice on account of the peculiarity from which it derives its popular name. Instead of being covered with the usual plumage, the upper part of the head, the back of the neck, and the throat are clothed with very minute and closely-set feathers of a very deep black, so that the bird looks as if the neck had been denuded of feathers, and covered with a piece of neatly-sewn black velvet. On the sides of the neck even this slight clothing is absent, the plumage being represented merely by a few scanty feathers of down. The general color of the feathers is black in the male, and brownish-gray in the female, excepting the wing-coverts and the edges of the central quill-feathers, which are slaty-gray. The Bare-necked Fruit Crow is not at all an elegant bird in its form, being heavily made and thick-set. There are several other members of this curious group, such as the Bald Fruit Crow, called also the Capuchin Bald Head, on account of the peculiarity which has earned for it the popular titles by which it is known. In allusion to the monli-like asjject of the head, the Creoles of Cayenne call it " Oiseau mon ; This species is larger than the preceding, being quite equal to the common Carrion Crow in size, and being altogether of a thicker and larger make. It is plentiful in Guinea. The head of the Bald Fruit Crow is very large and heavily made, and the whole front of the bird is totally bare, like that of the leatherhead, already described and figured. Many naturalists. BALD FRUIT CUOW.—OymiiocephiUue calvm. think that while the Bald Fruit Crow is still young, its head is clothed with feathers, together with the remainder of the body, and
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