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Title: The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) NCRS Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
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ble of inflation. So many varieties of colour are foimd among them, that it is difficult to trace the limits of the various si)ecies.Those especially which have a crest, are extremely variable. [The size is in general much less than in the others,and form more slender : the naked parts are often beautifully coloured]. The trachea, at least in the crestedspecies, descends under the skin far behind the posterior edge of the sternum, ascends, is again flexed, and thencontinues its course towards the fourchette, through which, as usual, it gains access to the lungs. In one crestlc>8species (Pen. marail, Tem.), greenish-black, with a fulvous belly, (which appears very distinct,) the trachea formsin both sexes a curve at the upper part of the sternum, before it enters the lungs. The Parraquas (Ortalida, Merrem)—Merely differ from the Guans in having no naked skin about the head.One species only is knoivn, of a bronzed brown above, whitish giay beneath, and rufous on the Iiead, (the Ca-
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Fij. 108.—The Yc]]oo-billed CuriisM GALLIN.E. 223 tracQy Buffou ; Phnsiamu motmot^ Gmelin; Ph. parraqua^ Lath). The cry of this bird is very loud, and articu-lates its name. The trachea of the mule descends beiu-ath the skin as low as the abdomen, and then a^scends tofnter the thorax. With these ditTerent Curassows has been generally associated The Hoazin {Opisthoconnis, Ilofinansepg.)—An American bird, which has the same port, and a sliort and thick bill, with nostriU pierced in itscorneous substance, without any membrane. The head is adorned with an occipital crest of long fea-thers, very narrow and thinly barbed; and what distinguishes it from all the true Poultry, is the totalabsence of membrane between the toes. T\\^h\x<\<&i\t Pkasianus cristatuxt Lin.; of a ffreenish-!)rown, variegated with white above, the front of theneck and tip of the tail fulvous, and the belly chestnut. It is found in Guiana, perching along the marg-in ofinundated places, where it subsist-
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