GUINEA PINTADO. 259 



Pintado with the body grey-blue, sprinkled with white spots ; 



the head and upper part of the neck naked, and grey-blue ; 



a conical tubercle with its tip reflexed on the crown ; and a 



broad geminated membrane near the gape. 

 Numida Meleagris. Linn. Syst. Nat. l . 2?3.Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 744. I.- Brief. Orn. l. 176. pi. 18. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 



621. l.Temm. Gall. Ind. 680. 

 Callus et Gallina Guineensis. Raii. Syn. 52. 8. 

 Le Peintade. Buff. Ois. 2. 102. pi. 4. Buff. PI. Enl. 108. 

 Peintade Me*leagride. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 2. 431. pi. \.f. 4 



and 5. 

 Guinea Pintado. Will. Birds. lG2.Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 685. 1, 



Lath. Syn. Sup. 2O4.Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 272. Bew. Brit. 



Birds. 1.293. Bing. Anim. Biog. 2. 24Q.Penn. Brit. Zool. 



1. ;>. 280. 



Var. /3. pectore albo. 

 With the breast white. 

 Numida Meleagris. 0. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 621. Temm. Gall. 



Ind. 681. 



Numida Meleagris pectore albo. Briss. Orn. 1. 181. a. 

 White-breasted Pintado. Albin. Birds. 2. pi. 35. Lath. Gen. 



Syn. 4. 687. 



Var. y. corpore toto attido, maculis rotundatis albis. 

 With the whole body whitish, with rounded white spots. 

 Numida Meleagris. var. a. Temm. Gall. Ind. 681. 



THE Guinea Pintado is bigger than a large Cock : 

 length twenty-two inches : beak of a reddish horn- 

 colour : its head is bare of feathers, and covered 

 with a naked skin of a bluish colour : on the 

 crown is a callous conical protuberance, of a bluish 

 red-colour, and compressed at the sides : on each 

 side of the upper mandible, at the base, hangs a 

 loose wattle, which in the female is red, and in the 

 male of a bluish colour : the upper part of the 

 neck is nearly naked, being furnished with a few 



