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THE CRESTED GUINEA-FOWL. 



Numida cristata LATHAM. 

 PLATE XXVIII. 



Pcintade a crete, Sojinini's Buffon Peintade cornal, Tern- 



minck, Pigeons el Gallinaces^ ii. 448 Numida cristata, 



Crested Pintada, Latham. General History^ viii. p. 148. 

 Vieillofs Gallerie, pi. ccix. 



THIS bird is considerably less than the Common 

 Guinea-fowl, represented on the next Plate, which 

 Bought properly to have come first in the order, 

 the head and neck are bare, and of a dull blue, 

 shaded into red upon the head. On the head, 

 instead of the hard casque, there is an ample crest 

 of hairy-like disunited feathers of a bluish-black, 

 reaching as far forward as the nostrils, but in gene- 

 ral turned backwards. The whole plumage, ex- 

 cept the quills, is of a bluish-black, covered with 

 small greyish spots, sometimes four, sometimes six, 

 on each feather. The quills are pale yellowish 

 brown, and the edges of the secondaries pure white, 

 appearing very conspicuous from the contrast with 

 the other parts. It is said by Temminck to inhabit 

 the Great. Namaquas country, and to have the same 

 manners with its congeners 



