334 BIRDS OF EUROPE AND NORTH AFRICA 



head red. Legs and feet brownish horn colour. Wing (^ 232- 

 256, $ 210-220. Tarsus 65-70. Bill 28-30. $ Brown, feathers 

 with black angular centres, bordered by red brown and tipped 

 buff; crown, neck, and chest with purple gloss, breast and 

 abdomen light brown. 



Resident. — W. Transcaucasia, south-east and east of Black 

 Sea, north to Araxes River. From there introduced in ancient 

 times into Greece and later over almost all Europe, north to 

 S. Sweden and Christiania. 



P. colchicus septentrionalis Lorenz. ^ Above paler, more 

 golden than "colchicus," purple tips glossed green, throat and 

 neck green with little purple gloss except on sides of neck. 

 5 like typical female but paler. 



Resident. — N. Slopes of Caucasus, especially valleys of Kuban, 

 Terek, and Kuma, and W. Coast of Caspian south lo Apcheron 

 Peninsula and north to \'olga mouth. 



NUMIDA. 



Guinea-fowl. Head and neck bare ; on the crown a blunt 

 helmet, and at each angle of bill a wattle; tail of 16 feathers; 

 tail coverts nearly as long as the tail; no spur on tarsus; 

 sexes ahke ; young different from adults. 



Numida sabyi Hartert. 



Black with brown shade on upper parts and white ocelli, outer 

 margins of inner primaries and secondaries with jagged white cross 

 bars ; differs from domesticated Guinea-fowl (" N. meleagris ") 

 in lacking the vinous grey collar, in "sabyi" the ocellated 

 feathers extend to the middle of the neck ; on occiput there 

 is a bunch of antrorse feathers covering helmet from behind. 

 Bill red brown, horny white at tip. Bare skin round eye slaty ; 

 helmet brown ; wattles red. Legs and feet dark brown. Wing 

 275. Tarsus -]-] (H.). 



Probably a resident in W. Morocco between rivers Bou- 

 Regreg and Sebou, but only one example obtained up to date. 



