258 GUINEA PINTADO. 



to the Crested Pintado, which was communicated 

 to him by Le Vaillant as a new species : it is 

 briefly described in the second volume (page 452) 

 of Temminck's Monograph on the Pigeons and 

 Gallinaceous Birds. It is called the Negro Pin- 

 tado, and inhabits the country of the Caffrarians, 

 and lives in flocks : it possesses a very large crest 

 on the head : the whole of the neck is clothed 

 with feathers, without any naked space or wattles: 

 the crest, the whole of the neck, and the breast, 

 are of a dull black : the under part of the body is 

 grey-brown, spotted with white : the whole of the 

 upper parts are grey-blue, with white spots en- 

 circled with blue. 



Another obscure species is mentioned by La- 

 tham in the second supplement to his Synopsis, 

 page 272 : this is, perhaps, nothing bat a variety 

 of the Crested Pintado. 



rii A. Vertice galed compressd instructd. 

 A. The crown furnished with a compressed comb. 



GUINEA PINTADO. 

 (Numida Meleagris.) 



Nu. corpore griseo~caerulescente, guttis albis consperso, capita 

 eoUoque supcriore nudis, grisco c<Eruleis, tubere conico apice 

 reflexo in vertice, membrand laid ad rictum gemind. 



