THE CRESTED GUINEA-FOWLS. 07 
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 esculentus). 
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. 
Guttera, 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 szxteen feathers. Upper tail-coverts ex/ending 
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 zo¢ armed with spurs. 
Plumage alike in both sexes. General colour black, spotted 
with pave 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. fase. iv. p.15, pl. 2 (1767); 
Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. ii. pl. 45 (1872). 
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