PHASIANID^ GUTTEEA 233 



FIG. 71. Head of Numida mitrata. x \^ 



Genus VI. GUTTERA. 



Type. 

 Guttera, WagL, Isis, 1832, p. 1225 .................. . ..... G. cristata. 



Head and neck naked and bare, except for an elongated crest of 

 curly black feathers along the middle line from the base of the bill 

 to the occiput ; gape wattles present or absent ; wing, tail and legs 

 as in Numida. Plumage as in Numida except that the first four 

 or five secondaries are margined with white. 



Four species of this purely African genus are recognised ; only 

 one of these comes within our limits. 



666. Guttera edouardi. Crested Guinea-fowl. 



Numida cristata (nee Pall] Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 330 ; Layard, B. S. 



Afr. p. 267 (1867) ; Drummond, Large Game 8. E. Afr. p. 415 (1875). 

 Numida edouardi, Hartlaub, Journ. Ornith. 1867, p. 36 ; id. Ibis, 1870, 



p. 444; P. L. Sclater, P.Z.S. 1871, p. 495. 

 Numida pucherani (nee Hartl.) Sharpe, ed Layard's B. 8. Afr. p. 586 



(1884). 



