98 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY, 
Guitera cristata, Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 12253 Ovilvie-Grant, 
Cat. B: Brit. Mus. sani. p; 381 (1893). 
(Plate XXX.) 
Adult.—Top of head covered by a full long crest of curling 
black feathers ; a black collar confined to the base of the neck, 
hardly extending on to the chest ; naked skin on rest of head 
and neck cobalt-blue, except the chin and throat, which are 
red. ’ Total length, 20 inches’; wing, 1072"; ‘tail; 5:13 tarsus 
3°0; middle toe (with claw), 274. 
Range.—West Africa, extending from Sierra Leone to the 
Gold Coast. 
Habits.— Although this Crested Guinea-Fowl is a well-known 
bird throughout Liberia, Mr. Buttikofer tells us that it 1s ex- 
tremely difficult to obtain, on account of its extreme shyness 
and its aptitude for hiding when met with. On open plains it 
was never seen, being always killed in brushwood and high 
forest when watching for Antelopes. Occasionally it was caught 
in snares placed in narrow passages through the dense brush- 
wood. Some of these Guinea-Fowls, kept in confinement by 
Mr. H. T. Ussher during his residence in Fantee, appeared to 
thrive well, and could probably be domesticated, but he tells us 
that they proved a great nuisance amongst other birds, being of 
a pugnacious disposition, especially when associated with the 
domestic examples of the Common Helmcted Guinea-Fowl. 
Il. THE BLACK-CHESTED CRESTED: GUINEA-FOWL. GUTTERA 
EDOUARDI. 
Numida edouardi, Hartlaub, J. f. O. 1867, p. 36; id. Ibis, 
1870, Pp. 444. 
Numida verreauxt, Elliot, Ibis, 1870, p. 300; id. Monogr 
_ Phasian. 11. pl. 44 (1872). 
Nunida sp., Sclater, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 86, pl. xii. 
Guttera edouardi, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxi. p. 382 
(1893). 
