226 WHITE-SPOTTED TURNIX. 



two years before he published his figure ; so irre- 

 gular, indeed, does the letter-press to his work come 

 out, that we actually do not know whether the 

 sheet which relates to this plate has even yet been 

 published. M. Temminck's figure represents the 

 middle of the neck and its sides as white, with fer- 

 ruginous spots, and the breast quite white. Our 

 nwosus has the whole of the neck and breast ferru- 

 ginous with white spots < 



SPOTTED- WINGED PINTADO, OR GUINEA HEN. 



Numida maculipennis, SWAINS. 



Body, wings, primary quills, and tail, covered with white 

 spots ; head and part of the throat naked ; neck and breast 

 purplish, immaculate ; gape wattled ; crown with a com- 

 pressed elevated tubercle. 



ALL the authors we have consulted agree in stating 

 that the common Pintado, or Guinea Fowl, has the 

 greater quills of the wings white, and although we 

 have not, at this moment, an opportunity of seeing 

 this, it cannot for a moment be reasonably doubted 

 that such is the universal character of the common 

 species. That, however, which we shall now record, 

 has the whole of the primaries spotted on a blackish 

 ground, precisely with the same pattern, and in the 



