382 phasianidj:. 



edged with the same colour. Top of the head covered with a full 

 long crest of curling black feathers ; a uniform black collar round 

 the base of the neck extending in front onto the upper part of the 

 chest ; primaries dark brown spotted with bluish white, or uniform 

 with only the outer web of the inner ones marked with irregular 

 oblique lines and dots of bluish white ; secondaries with the ground- 

 colour of the outer web black, of the inner dark brown, the first 

 four or five have the outer web margined with white and all are 

 ornamented with longitudinal bluish-white lines, those on the 

 inner webs formed by the confluence or semiconfluence of rows of 

 numerous dots. Rudimentary wattles at the angles of the gape and 

 naked skin on head and neck cobalt-blue, except chin and throat 

 which are red : bill horny yellow, blue at the base ; legs and feet 

 brownish lead-colour. Total length 20 inches, wing lU-2, tail 5-1, 

 tarsus 3, middle toe (with claw) 2*4. 



Hah. W. Africa, Sierra Leone to the Gold Coast. 



a. Ad. sk. Sierra Leone. Mis. W. P. Manger [P.]. 



b, e. Ad. sk. Denkera, Gold Coast (.//. Shelley Coll. 



T. Ussher). 

 d. Skeleton. West Africa. 



2. Guttera edouardi. 



Nnmida cristata, Less, {nee Pall.) Traite (VOrn. p. 408 (1831) [C.'.pe 

 of Good Hope]; Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 3.30 [Zambesi]; Fit^sch i^ 

 Hartl. Tog. Ost-Afr. p. 572 (1870) [part.] ; ? Sharpe's ed. Layard's 

 B. S. Afr. p. 586 (1884) [Benguela]. 



Numida edouardi, Hartl. J. f. O. 1867, p. 36 [Natal]; id. Ibis, 1870, 

 p. 444 ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 495. 



Numida pucberani, Gray, List GallincB Brit. Mus. p. 44 (1867) [Zam- 

 besi] ; Sharpens ed. Layard's U.S. Afr. p. 586 ( 1884). 



Numida verreauxi, Elliot, Ibis, 1870, p. -300 [Natal] ; Selat. P. Z. S. 

 1870, p. 383 [Natal] ; Layard, Ibis, 1871, pp. 105, 106 [Zululand] ; 

 Elliot, Mm. Phas. n. pi. 44 (1872); Gurney, Ihis, 1873, p. 255 

 [Natal]; Sharpens ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 585 (1884) [Natal]; 

 Seehohm, Ibis, 1887, p. 350. 



? Numida edwardi, Socage, J. Ac. Lisb. no. xii. p. 275 (1871) 

 [Benguela]. 



Numida sp., Sclat. P. Z. S. 1890, p. 86, pi. xii. [Zambesi]. 



Adult male and female. Differ from G. cristata only in having the 

 black collar surrounding the base of the neck extended over the 

 whole chest and usually more or less washed with chestnut *. Bill 



* I am at present unable, from the evidence at band, to absolutely settle the 

 question which Mr. Sclater (P. Z. S. 1890, p. 86} has raised regarding the 

 coloration of the naied skin of the head and neck in this species. Mr. Elliot 

 describes live specimens (types of his iV. verreau.ri) obtained in Natal as follows : — 

 " Black about the eyes, sides and back of neck light bhie, and throat from 

 the base of the bill to the feathers of the breast bright red. The skin of the 

 neck full behind, forming a plait about midway, and falling in a kind of fold 

 over the feathers of the lower part." This description may have agreed with 



