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Numida galeata g^aleata {meleagn's auctorum). 



A'uiniihi gaUattt I'ai.las, Epie. Zool., I, fasc. IV, 1767, pp. 13-15. 

 — No localitv. 



An exaniple of what I consider the tvpical West AfVican 

 Giiineafowl was shot bv Mr. Kemp at Agoulerie, S. Nigeria. 



From Northern Nigeria we hâve a spécimen shot on the Kaduna 

 River bv Bovu Ai.exander. 



In the A^ovitates Zoologicae, XXVIII, iq2i, p. 85, Hartert 

 showed that the name mcleagris Linn. 01 authors, which had 

 alwavs been applied to the West African Grey-breasted Helniet 

 Guineafowl, nuist be transferred to the bird inhabiting the Upper 

 Nile, and that the West At'rican species must bear the name galeata 

 of Pai.i.as. H.vrtert (1. c.) remarks that the bird from the Lower 

 Niger is Kmnida galeata marchei Oust. — The characters which 

 are said to distinguish N. g. iiiarchci {rom N^. g. galeata, i. e. larger 

 size, darker and more bluish crop-region with more or less deve- 

 loped whitish cross-bars does not hold good in the spécimen 

 before me from Agoulerie, and I cannot see the slightest grounds 

 for separating it from tvpical A^ g. galeata. I hâve not examined 

 anv examples of A\ g. marchei from Gaboon or Angola; the 

 characters mav hold good in spécimens from that région. 



There are onlv two named races of this Guineafowl. 



1. — Numida gai.eata galeata. 



Cf. su/)/ a. 



Range. — Gambia to S. Nigeria. Represented in the Rritish 

 Muséum from Cape Verde Islands, Gambia, Portuguese Guinea, 

 Sierra Leone, N. and S. Nigeria, Annobon Island. 



2. — Numida gai.eata marchei. 



Nuiiiida marchei Oustalet, Ann. Se. Nat. (6), XIII, Art. 1'"', 

 1882. — Gaboon. 



