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Phastanus holdereri gmelini Buturlin, Ibis, 1904, 408 (new name for P. torquatus 



Gmelin). 

 Phasianus marginatus Meyer and Wolf, Taschenb. deutschl. Vog., i, 1810, 291, pi. 

 ( ?) Phasianus colchicus septcntrionalis Lorenz, Journ. fiir Orn., 1888, 572 (n. 



Caucasus). 

 Phasianus colchicus typicus Buturlin, Ibis, 1908, 584 (w. Transcaucasia). 



Family NUMIDIDAE : Guineafowls 



:=Nui'nidinae Carus, Handb. Zool., i, 1868-75, 324. — Gadow, in Bronn, Thier-Reich, 



Vog., ii, 1891, 172. 

 =Numidid3e Sharpe, Rev. Rec. Att. Classif. Birds, 1891, 68; Hand-list, i, 1899, xi, 



41.— Beddard, Struct, and Classif. Birds, 1898, 302. 

 =Numididae Wetmoiu:, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ixxvi, art. 24, 1930, 3 ; Smithsonian 



Misc. Coll., Ixxxix, No. 13, 1934, 6; xcix. No. 7, 1940, 6.— Peters, Check-list 



Birds World, ii, 1934, 133. 

 =:Numidina£ Elliot, Stand. Nat. Hist., iv, 1884, 213, in text. — Knowlton, Birds of 



World, 1909, 280, in text. 

 >Meleagrin2e Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1840, 60 (includes Meleagris and Numididae). 



Galliform birds with second metacarpal without backward process; 

 costal processes outwardly inclined; head and at least upper half of neck 

 naked, the former usually with a bony erect vertical helmet or bristly or 

 curly crest or an occipital feathered patch or band ; tail relatively small, 

 drooping (decumbent), not erectile, mostly hidden by the coverts, and the 

 very full plumage of the back and rump presenting a strongly arched 

 contour. 



Bill relatively large (from base nearly as long as head), strong, much 

 deeper than wide at base of rhamphotheca ; head and upper neck bare, the 

 pileum usually with either a bony knob {Numida), a full crest of vertical 

 feathers (Guttera), or a median line of short feathers, the rictal region 

 sometimes wattled; nostril obliquely vertical, the lower and the anterior 

 one, narrowly oval, linear, or fusiform. Wing moderate, much rounded, 

 the longest primaries decidedly longer than longest secondaries ; fourth 

 to sixth (usually the fifth?) primary longest, the first (outermost) about 

 as long as or slightly shorter than tenth, the outer ones moderately to 

 strongly bowed or incurved, and tapering toward their rather narrow tips. 

 Tail usually rather short, moderately rounded, and mostly overlain by 

 coverts, but sometimes (in genus Acrylliuni) longer, with middle rectrices 

 long, narrow, and pointed, more than twice as long as lateral pair. Tarsus 

 moderately stout, much longer than middle toe with claw, decidedly less 

 than one-third as long as wing, the acrotarsium with two rows of large, 

 interdigitating transverse scutella, the planta tarsi with several rows of 

 much smaller scutella and without any spur ; middle toe much shorter than 

 tarsus, the outer toe reaching about to penultimate articulation of middle 

 toe, the inner toe slightly shorter ; hallux decidedly shorter than basal 

 phalanx of middle toe ; claws moderate in size moderately to rather strongly 

 decurved, somewhat compressed ; a small web between basal phalanges of 



