बड़े क्रेस्टेड आर्बोरियल गेम अमेरिका के गर्म हिस्सों के पक्षी लंबे पैर और पूंछ वाले पक्षी; खेल और भोजन के रूप में अत्यधिक सम्मानित

curassows's Usage Examples:

He, not unnaturally, includes both curassows and turkeys in one category, calling both " Pavos " (peafowls); but he carefully distinguishes between them, pointing out among other things that the latter make a wheel (hacen la rueda) of their tail, though this was not so grand or so beautiful as that of the Spanish " Pavo," and he gives a faithful though short description of the turkey.

Next stands the order Gallinae with 4 " cohorts "; (I) Tetraonomorphae, comprising 2 families, the sand-grouse (Pterocles) and the grouse proper, among which the Central American Oreophasis finds itself; (2) Phasianomorphae, with 4 families, pheasants peacocks, turkeys, guinea fowls, partridges, quails, and hemipodes (Turnix); (3) Macronyches, the megapodes, with 2 families; (4) the Duodecimpennatae, the curassows and guans, also with 2 families; (5) the Struthioniformes, composed of the tinamous; and (6) the Subgrallatores with 2 families, one consisting of the curious South American genera Thinocorus and Attagis and the other of the sheathbill (Chionis).

Cracidae, curassows and guans, neotropical.

curassows's Meaning':

large crested arboreal game bird of warm parts of the Americas having long legs and tails; highly esteemed as game and food