Crested Curassow

Crax alector, Crested Curassow, is black with a purplish gloss, the belly being white, the naked lores and orbits black, the cere and base of the bill yellow, the tip bluish, and the feet horn-coloured. Throughout the whole genus, which is Central ad South American, the female has a curly crest barred with white.” A. H. Evans, 1900

Keywords

bird, fowl, Cracidae, south american bird, large bird, Crested Curassow, Crax alector, Black Curassow, threatened species, black bird

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Source

Evans, A. H. Birds (New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1900)

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