4G. GUTTEIIA. 383 



yellowish horn ; legs and feet. ashy. Total length 20 inches, wing 

 1()4, tail 5-1, tarsus 3"1, middle toe (with claw) 2-7. 



J/ab. (South Africa, Natal, Zulu-Land to the Zambesi; ?Benguela. 



a. Ad. St. South Africa. 



b, c. Ad. .sk. South Africa. Purchased. 



d. Ad. sk. Natal, Dec. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



(Type of N. rerreau.vi .) 



<")./"• 6 $ ad. sk. Natal {T. Ayrrs). Sharpe Coll. 



g. S id. sk. Natal ('/'. Ai/res). Gurney Coll. 



h. 2 ad. sk. Zulu Land, June (Gonh/e). Shelley Coll. 



I. Ad. sk. Zambesi. Sir John Kirk [P.]. 



k. Ad.sk. Victoria Falls, Zambesi. Sir Jolui Kirk [P.]. 



/, m. 5 ad. sk. Mozambique, May, July. Lord Liiford [P.]. 

 n. Imperfect skeleton. 



3. Guttera pucherani. 



PNumida ffigvptiaca, Lalh. Iiid. Orn. ii. p. 622 (1790). 



LaPeintadu d'Egypte, Bonnaf. Tabl. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 193 (1791). 



Egyptian Pintado, Lnth. Gen. Si/n. Suppl. ii. p. 272 (1802) ; id. Gen. 



Hist. viii. p. 147 (1823). 

 Numida cristata, Shaw i^- Nodd. (nee Pall.) Nat. Misc. pi. 7o7 ; 



Lai/ard, IIm^ 1861, p. 120, 1864, p. 133; id. B. S. Afr. p. 267 



(1867) [Zanzibar^. 

 Numida pucherani,'.ffffr</. /. f. O. 18150, p. 341 [Zanzibar]; Sclat. 



P.Z.S. 1863, p. 126, 1864, p. 114 [Ugogo]; Sperl. Ibis, 1868, 



p. 291 ; Fi»sr/i .y Hai-tl. Vw/. Ost-Afr. p. 574 (1870) ; Elliot, Man. 



J>/ias. ii. pi. 46 ( 1872): Fisck. Sflleich. J.f. 0. 1878, p. 2oUL\VitoJ ; 



Fisch. J. f. O. 1878, pp. 293, 294, 1879, pp. 284, 300 i MaHndi] ; 



id. ^- Reich. J.f. O. 1880, p. 140; Hhellei/, P. Z. S. 1881, p. o97 



[Melinda, Pangani]; Fisch. Zeit. yes. Orn. i. p. 381 (1884); id. 



J.f. O. 1885, p. 119 [Zanzibar, Tombatu Is., Bajramoyo, Pangani, 



Ungii, Wapokomoland] ; Peich. J. f. O. 18^7, p. 51 [Uzeguba' ; 



Shelley, Ibis, 1888, p. 295 [Kak.5, Taveita] ; id. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 371 



[Ivilimanjaro, Tana 11.]. 



one of Mr. Elliot's tj-pes now before me and with two specimens from Mozam- 

 bique, bui ii is iiiipossiblo to tell from dried skins, which look idl dark. On tlie 

 other hiuul, tlie spcciineu described and figured bv Mr. Sclator and obtained 

 near tlu" Victuria Falls, Zambesi, " seems to differ." he says, " in having a con- 

 Bpicuous fold of naked skin at the back of the neck of a pale yellowish-grey 

 culour, the naked skin on the throat not red but leaden grey, and a slightly 

 feathered chin." This description applies to the grc.it majority of our series of 

 G. edouardi from Natal, Zulu-hind, and Zambesi. It may be that the birds 

 described as having the throat bright red are old birds in the breeding-seaeon, 

 and that the birds with the yellowish-grey neck and leaden-grey throat are 

 younger examples ; but, even supposing Mr. Elliot's stateiueiU to be correct, 

 tliere can be no doubt that all the specimens before me belong to one and the 

 same species, G. edouardi. Mr. Ayres (Ibis, IS73, p. 25t>) says " the bare skin 

 of the sides of the head, chin, throat, and upper neck is black, but whitish <m 

 the occiput." This note is made from specimens which were being hawked 

 about the town of D'l'rbau, and, as no doubt the dark purple skin on the sidea 

 of the head, chin, throat, and upper neck turns black soon after death, tliis de- 

 scription agrees well enough v»itli Mr. Sclaler's figure and description of the 

 live bird in the Zoological Gardens. 



