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middle and outer toes, but middle and inner toes separated nearly to base. 

 Range. — Africa and Madagascar ; one species introduced into and natur- 

 alized in some of the West Indian islands. (Five genera and 11 species.) 



KEY TO THE GENERA OF NUMIDIDAE 



a. Tail short and rounded, with middle rectrices not conspicuously longer than 



lateral pair; feathers of lower neck, chest, and upper back short and rounded 



(normal) ; acrotarsium of adult male either without any bony protuberance 



or else with only a single short blunt spur. 



h. Rectrices 14; acrotarsium with a short blunt spur in adult male; plumage 



vermiculated with brown or white. 



c. Pileum with a median line of short feathers; plumage vermiculated with 



brown, back and chest not white Phasidus (extralimital)' 



cc. Pileum wholly nude; plumage vermiculated with white, lower neck, upper 



back, and chest white Agelastes (cxtralimital)* 



bb. Rectrices 16; acrotarsium without spur; plumage spotted or dotted with 

 white or pale blue. 

 c. Pileum with a bony knob or helmet ; but without feathered crest ; plumage 

 spotted or dotted with white, secondaries not edged with white. 



Numida (p. 431) 

 cc. Pileum without bony knob but with a full crest of erect feathers; plumage 

 dotted with pale blue, secondaries edged with white. 



Guttera (extralimital)" 

 aa. Tail long and pointed, the middle rectrices more than twice as long as lateral 

 pair ; feathers of lower neck, chest, and back elongated, lanceolate ; acrotarsium 

 with 4 or 5 knobs or very short blunt spurs in adult male. 



Acryllium (extralimital)" 



Genus NUMIDA Linnaeus 



Mclecujris (not of Linnaeus, 1758) Brisson, Orn., i, 1760, 26. (Type, by tautonymy, 



Mclcagris Brisson ^=^ Phasiamis viclcagris Linnaeus.) 

 Gallina Linnaeus, in Hasselquist, Reise nach Palestine, 1762, 327. (Type, by 



original designation, Pliasianus mclcagris Linnaeus.) 

 Numida Linnaeus, Mus. Adolphi Friderici Regis, ii, 1764, 27. (Type, by monotypy, 



Phasianus mclcagris Linnaeus.) 

 Numidia (emendation) Forster, Synopt. Cat. Brit. Birds, 1817, 64. 

 Querelca Reichenbach, A v. Syst. Nat. Vog., 1853, xxvii. (Type, by monotypy, 



Numida mitrata Pallas.) 

 Arquata Gistel, Naturg. Thierr. hohen Schulen, 1848, 92. (New name for Numida 



Linnaeus.) 

 Pintado "S.D.W.," Analyst, iii. No. xiii, Oct. 1835, 33. (Type, by monotypy, "Pin- 



tada numida heach" ^ Phasianus mclcagris Linnaeus.) 



'Phasidus Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, viii, 1856 (1857), 322 (type, 

 by monotypy, P. nigcr, Cassin). Western Africa; monotypic. 



^Agelastes Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1849, 145 (type, by monotyp}', 

 A. melcagrides Bonaparte). — Agelastns (emendation) Hartlaub, Journ. fiir Orn., 

 1855, 356. Western Africa; monotypic. 



^Guttera Wagler, Isis, 1832, 1225 (type, by special designation, Numida cristata 

 Pallas). Africa; three species with 11 races. 



^"Acryllium Gray, List Genera Birds, 1840, 61 (type, by monotypy, Numida vul- 

 turina Hardwick). Eastern Africa; monotypic. 



