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the exception of a band of black feathers, from the base of the bill to the occiput, 

 the head and neck are almost entirely naked, the skin being yellow shading into- 

 orange on the throat and neck, and the male having the metatarsus armed with a 

 pair of stout spurs, thereby showing an approach to the pheasants. The turkey 

 guinea fowl {Agelastes meleag rides), met with further north, from Liberia to the 

 Gabun, may be recognized by having the whole head and neck naked, the skin of 



CRESTED AND COMMON GUINEA 



(One-fourth natural size.) 



the former being red, darker on the crown and hind-neck, while the lower neck is 

 milky white, the mantle and chest being white, and the rest of the plumage black 

 finely mottled with white. Like the last species the male has a pair of short, 

 stout spurs. The true guinea fowls, including six species with naked heads 

 covered on the top with a more or less elevated bony helmet, a pair of wattles 

 at the angles of the gape, and black, white-spotted plumage, are found all over 



