262 MITRED PINTADO. 



Pintado with a black body sprinkled with white spots j the 

 crown with a red, rounded tubercle, with its tip reflexed ; a 

 narrow geminated membrane near the gape; with a lon- 

 gitudinal fold on the throat. 



Numida mitrata. Pall. Spic. 4. p. 18. t. 3. f. 1. (head.) Gmel. 

 Syst. Nat. 1. 745. 2. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 622. Temm. GaU. 

 Ind. 682. 



Peintade MitrSe. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 2. 444. 



Mitred Pintado. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 688. 2. 



PALLAS was the first that described this species, 

 which inhabits Madagascar, Guinea, and other 

 parts of Africa: its manners are similar to the 

 last, and its cry is similar, and equally discordant : 

 its size is equal to that of the common species j 

 its length is about twenty-two inches : the head 

 crowned with a helmet, which in the adult is 

 elevated about one inch and three quarters in 

 height: the whole crown and about the beak of 

 a dirty red : on each side of the gape is a longish 

 linear portion of flesh, pointed at the end, longest 

 in the male, and of a red colour at the tip : under 

 the throat is a longitudinal wattle, somewhat si- 

 milar to that of the Turkey : the beak is reddish 

 yellow : the space round the eyes blood-red : the 

 rest of the upper part of the neck is of a bright 

 blue, tinged with violet, and naked, with a few 

 scattered black hairs : the general colour of the 

 plumage is more deep than in the preceding spe- 

 cies : the white spots are more regularly dis- 

 tributed : those of the greater quills are more 

 dingy than on the rest of the plumage : the lower 

 part of the neck and the breast are of a dusky 

 grey, with narrow undulated transverse white 



