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Grant (Bull. B. O. Club. vol. iv. p. 27, id. Handbook Game- 

 birds, i. p. 112) described it in 1895 from the Nassa district. 



37. Pternistes infuscatus Cab. 



This common species was shot at Makindos, Ukamba, British 

 East Africa. (See Neumann, J. F. O. 1898, p. 302.) 



38. NuDiida reiclienozvi Grant. 



$ ? shot on the Kiboko river in Ukamba, British East 

 Africa, 26/4/98. " Iris red-brown, bill and feet black." The 

 wattle at the gape seems to be almost quite red. 



39. Numida ptylorJiytidia Less. 



A female and a young male from Kitanwa, 2\ hours' march 

 from the east shore of Lake Albert, Unyoro. 



Lesson, who was evidently a very poor Greek and Latin 

 scholar, spelt the name ptylorJiyticJia. 



40. Numida ansorgci, sp. nov. 



An adult male of a guinea-fowl, shot at Lake Nakuru (Uganda 

 Protectorate), on March 28, 1898, cannot be united with one 

 of the described forms. It stands probably somewhat between 

 A^. reicJienowi and the form named N. intevDiedia by Oscar 

 Neumann. It differs from N. reichenowi in the form of the 

 helmet, the high ridge of caruncles at the base of the bill, the 

 broad, not narrow and not hair-like feathers on the back of the 

 neck, and the colour of the wattle at the gape, but it agrees 

 with this species in the form of the wattle at the gape and the 

 barred neck-feathers. It differs from N. intermedia Neum. in 

 the beak being blackish-green, not red, the larger wattles at the 

 gape, and their colour, and probably also the more spotted 

 chest. The type-specimen has on the hind-neck, just below the 

 head, a bunch of broad pointed black feathers, which seem to 

 point upwards ; the feathers below this bunch are very finely, 

 but regularly barred with numerous white bars. The red naked 

 skin on the nape is divided by a narrow black line in the 

 middle ; the wattle at the gape is broad and largely extended 

 in front and behind, but not very pendant ; and there is a red 

 spot in front as well as on the hind-tip. "Iris red-brown." 



