(SCLATER'S CURASSOW.)
+Crax alector+, _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii. p. 500. +Crax sclateri+,
_Gray, List of Gallinæ_, p. 14 (1867); _Scl. Trans. Zool. Soc._
ix. p. 28, pls. xliv. & xlv.; _Burm. P. Z. S._ 1871, p. 702.
_Description._--Black; lower belly and tips of tail-feathers white;
lores naked; cere and bill yellow; feet flesh-colour: whole length
32·0 inches, wing 14·0, tail 14·0. _Female_: above black, with buffy
cross bars; crest white, barred with black: beneath, throat black,
breast more or less barred with black; abdomen ochraceous; tail
black, with buffy-white bars and tips.
_Hab._ Paraguay and N. Argentina.
Azara described both sexes of this Curassow under the name of "El Mitu"
(Apunt. iii. p. 83), but, along with other authors, confounded it with
the Crested Curassow of Guiana (_Crax alector_). In Paraguay it is said
to be numerous, but in Argentina only occurs on the northern and eastern
frontiers (in Tucuman and Misiones), where it frequents the forests.