tllE CRESTED GUIN£A-F0WLS'. 97 



The young are probably hatched about the end of August 

 or beginning of September, as they are full-grown by the end 

 of the year. 



The voice is very similar to that of the Domestic Guinea- 

 Fowl. The food appears to consist to a larger extent of 

 seeds and fruits than amongst the Partridges, insects being 

 apparently but little sought after. In one instance three birds 

 shot one morning near Halai had been feeding chiefly upon 

 the small tubers or corms of the Quentee {Cyperus esculenlus). 

 Their crops also contained seeds and a few fragments of 

 leaves, but amongst the three only one insect, a bug. 



THE CRESTED GUINEA-FOWLS. GENUS GUTTERA. 



Gtittera^ Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 1225. 



Type, G. cristata (Pallas). 



A well-developed crest of black feathers covering the top of the 

 head ; rest of the head and neck naked ; wattles at the angle 

 of the gape small or well-developed ; a fold of skin at the back 

 of the neck. Tail moderately long and somewhat rounded, 

 composed of sixteen feathers. Upper tail-coverts extetiditig 

 nearly to the end of the tail-feathers. 



First primary flight-feather considerably shorter than the 

 second, which is about equal to the tenth ; fifth a trifle the 

 longest. 



Male 7iot armed with spurs. 



Plumage alike in both sexes. General colour black, spotted 

 with/rt/(? blue; outer webs of outer secondaries margined with 

 pure white. 



I. THE BLACK-COLLARED CRESTED GUINEA-FOWL. GUTTERA 

 CRISTATA. 



Numida cristata, Pallas, Spic. Zool. i. fasc. iv. p. 15, pi. 2 (1767) j 

 Elliot, Monogr, Phabian. ii. pi. 45 (1872). 

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