PHASIANID^E 



NUMIDA 



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numerous wild Guinea-fowls brought into the Pretoria market for 

 sale an individual with white quills though without the charac- 

 teristic white breast. 



664. Numida papillosa. Damar aland Guinea- fowl. 



Numida cornuta (nee Finsch & Hartl.) Gurney, in Andersson's B. 



Damaral. p. 238 (1872) ; Grant, Cat. B.M. xxii, p. 378 (1893) ; id. 



Game Birds ii, p. 92 (1897). 

 Numida coronata, Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 581 (1884) [in 



part] . 

 Numida papillosa, JReichenoiv, Orn. Monatsb. 1894, p. 145 ; Fleck, 



Journ. Ornith. 1894, pp. 389, 390 [with col. fig. of head] ; Neumann, 



Orn. Monatsb., vi, p. 20 (1898) ; Beichenow, Vdg. Afr. i, p. 444, 



fig. 7, on p. 436 (1901). 



FIG. 70. Head of Numida papillosa. x \\ 



Description. Eesembling N. coronata but with the bony helmet 

 more elevated, almost cylindrical and not flattened. Iris dark 





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