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Definition of Ourax Pauxi

Ourax pauxi
Pauxi Paux"i, n. [From the native name: cf. Sp. pauji.] (Zo["o]l.) A curassow (Ourax pauxi), which, in South America, is often domesticated.
Ourax Pauxi
Curassow Cu*ras"sow (k?-r?s"s?), n. [Native name in Brazil.] (Zool.) A large gallinaceous bird of the American genera Crax, Ourax, etc., of the family Cracid[ae]. 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.

Meaning of Ourax Pauxi from wikipedia

- Family: Cracidae Subfamily: Cracinae Genus: Mitu Lesson, 1831 Type species Ourax mitu Temminck ( = Crax mitu Linnaeus) Species M. tomentosum M. mitu M. salvini...
- 1815 (Cur****ows) Nothocrax Burmeister 1856 (Nocturnal Cur****ows) Pauxi Temminck 1813 [Ourax Cuvier 1817; Lophocerus Swainson 1837 non Hemprich & Ehrenberg...