86 MR. p. L. SCLATER ON A [Feb. 18, 



Plate IX. 

 Liocephalus boUvianiis (p. 82), with upper view of head. 



Plate X. 



Fig. 1. Echitiosaura horrida, p. 83. 

 2. Ptychoglossus bilincatus, p. 84-. 

 o. Side view of head, x 2. b. Lower view of head and breast, x 2. e. Pos- 

 terior ventral and anal regions, X 2. d. Tongue, x 2. 



Plate XI. 



Fig. 1. Chamasaura didactyla, p. 82. 

 1 a. , hind hmb, X 3. 



2. (Bnea, hiud limb, x 3. 



3. anguina, hind limb, X 3. 



4. Lygosoma anomalojms, p. 84. 



5. Scincus albofasciaius, p. 85. 



2. On a Guinea-fowl from the Zambesi allied to Numida 

 cristata. By P. L. Sclater, Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to 

 the Society. 



[Keceived January 30, 1890.] 

 (Plate XII.) 



On January 4th last year we received, as a present from Mr. 

 Percy C. Reid, a living Guinea-fowl, which I was unable to determine. 

 It was obviously a member of the group allied to Numida cristata, 

 and had a bunchy crest as other members of that section, but 

 appeared to be different from iV. cristata in having the mentum 

 slightly feathered and no red wattle or red naked skin on the throat. 

 Upon referring to Mr. Reid 1 was kindly informed by that gentleman 

 that this Guinea-fowl was the svrvivor of thiee specimens which he 

 had obtained at Pandamatanga, a t udiiig-statioQ on tlie Zambesi 

 close to its junction with the Chobe. This species was, however, 

 stated not to be indigenous to the country round Pandamatanga, but 

 the specimens in question had been brought there from a district 

 some sixty miles east, that is to the east of the Victoria Falls. Mr. 

 Reid was inclined to refer the species to Numida pucherani, and it is 

 no doubt the Guinea-fowl indicated under that name in Sharpe's 

 edition of Layard's ' Birds of South Africa ' (p. 58(5) as found near 

 the Victoria Falls. But it is certainly not the true Numida pucherani, 

 which is a very well marked species without any black ring round 

 the neck, and with a bright red naked skin round the eyes and on 

 the throat, found in Eastern Africa on the Zanzibar coast '. 



The specimen presented by Mr. Reid having died in September 



• Cf. Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 597, and the figure P. Z. S. 1877, p. 652, pi. Ixv., 

 where this species iscaUed Numida cllioti. Kiimidagranti, Elliot (P. Z. S. 1871 , 

 p. 584; id. Mon. Phas. ii. pi. 43), was founded on a drawing by Col. Grant of a 

 specimen obtained in Ugogo, and is probably the same ppecies. 



