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Curassow   Listen
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Curassow  n.  (Zool.) A large gallinaceous bird of the American genera Crax, Ourax, etc., of the family Cracidae. Note: The crested curassow (Crax alector) is black, and about the size of a small hen-turkey, with an erectile crest of curled feathers. It ranges from Mexico to Brazil. The galeated curassow or cushew bird (Ourax Pauxi) is similar in size, and has a large, hollow, blue, pear-shaped protuberance on the head.






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"Curassow" Quotes from Famous Books



... a long soft whistle sounded in the bush ahead. Any Indian hunter hearing that sound would straightway have begun scanning the high branches, for the liquid call was that of the mutum, or curassow turkey. But the waiting trio knew it for Pedro's signal that all was clear. At once they slid their canoe to shore, lifted its bow to a firm grip on the clay, and, after plumbing the shadows, quietly advanced in ...
— The Pathless Trail • Arthur O. (Arthur Olney) Friel



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