F emale.
Place.
CRESTED PH.
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D e s c r i p t i o n .
to the margin: the tail is cuneiform, the feathers obliquely
driated with black, except the two middle ones, which are plain
white : the legs are red, and furnilhed with a fpur behind, of a
white colour.
The female is fomewhat fmaller. The bill is brown : the
irides yellow brown : the eyes furrounded with a red Ikin, which
is narrower, and lefs bright than in the male : the head is a little
creded, and brown : throat and cheeks whitilh : the neck, back,
bread, rump, and wing coverts, rufous brown : the lower part o f
the bread, belly, and other parts beneath, are white, irregularly
mixed with brown, and eroded with tranfverfe black bands :
greater quills blackilh ; fecondaries like the back; thofe neared
the body dotted with white : tail diorter than in the male ; the
two middle feathers brown; the others brown and white mixed,
and driped obliquely with black : legs red, without fpurs.
This fpecies inhabits China with the lad, and is likewife
bred in our menagerits. The eggs are of a pale yellowilh alh-
colour, with a blufh of red.
Le Hocco brun da Mexique, Brif. orn. i. p. 304. 15.
F a ifan huppe de Cayenne, P I. enl. 337.
L ’ H o a z in , Buf. oif. ii. p. 385.
Hoa&zin, Rati Syn. p. 163.— Will. orn. p. 389.
Lev. Muf.
J E N G T H one foot ten inches.. Bill black : the head fur-
nifhed with a cred, the feathers of which are of different
lengths, the longed three inches ; colour of them dirty brownilh
white ; beneath black : round the eye bare and reddilh : the
upper parts of the body are brown; the under, as far as the
belly, rufous white : the belly and vent rufous: from the hind
head