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



Plate IX. 

 Liocephalu.s boUvianus (p. 82), with upper view of head. 



Plate X. 



Fig. 1. Echinosaura horrida, p. 83. 

 2. Ptychoglossiis bilineatus, p. 84. 

 a. Side view of head, X 2. b. Lower view of bead and breast, X 2. e. Pos- 

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



Plate XI. 



Fig. 1. Chameesaura didacfi/la, p. 82. 

 1 a. , hind limb, X 3. 



2. cBnea, hind limb, X 3. 



3. anguina, hind Hmb, X 3. 



4. Lygosoma anomalopus, p. 84. 



5. Scincus albofasciains, 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. 



[Received 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 obviousl}- 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 N. cristata in having the mentum 

 slightlv 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 siTvivor of thi ?e specimens which he 

 had obtained at Pandamatanga, a t uding-station on the 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. 586) as found near 

 the A'ictoria 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 



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

 where this species iscalled Numida elUoti. Kianida granti, Elliot (P. Z. S. 1871 , 

 p. 684; id. Mon. Phas. ii. pi. 43), was founded on a drawing by Col. Grant of a 

 (pecimen obtained in Ugogo, andie probably th« same ppeciei. 



