CRESTED PINTADO. 263 



bars : the feet and the claws are dusky grey ; the 

 former are stronger than in the preceding species : 

 the irides are grey-brown. 



B. Caput cristatum. 

 B. Head crested. 



CRESTED PINTADO. 



(Numida cristata. ) 



Nu. cristatd; corpore nigro albo maculato, cristd in certice pec- 

 toreque atris, plied membranaced ad rictum oris, gutture san- 

 guineo, collo superius nudo c&rulescente. 



Crested Pintado, with the body black, spotted with white; the 

 crest and beak dark-coloured ; a folded membrane near the 

 gape ; the throat sanguineous ; the upper part of the neck 

 naked, and bluish. 



Numida cristata. Gmcl. Syst. Nat. }. 746. 3. Lath, Ind. Orn. 

 1. 622. TVmro. Gall. Ind. 682. 



La Peintade cornal. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 2. 448. 



Crested Pintado. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 688. 3. pi. 62. 



THIS species is smaller than the Guinea Pintado : 

 its beak is of a horn-colour, surmounted by a 

 bluish cere near the nostrils : on each side the 

 lower mandible of the beak is a skin, with a lon- 

 gitudinal fold, instead of a wattle : the throat, the 

 top of the neck, and the occiput, are nearly de- 

 stitute of feathers : the sides and hinder part of 

 the neck are of a deep blue colour : the space' 

 round the ears is blue-grey j and the anterior part 



