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Dr. Exnst Harrert sent the following communication :— 
™ In the ‘ Ibis,’ 1905, p. 163, Mr. Meade-Waldo tell us that 
in the forest of Marmora, in West Marocco, he repeatedly 
heard the cries of Guinea-fowls and received some alive from 
the country of the Zair, south-east of the forest. Apparently 
Mr. Meade-Waldo took no interest in the problem of the 
occurrence of wild Guinea-fowls in Marocco, which are not 
known to occur north of the Senegal, 2. e. at least 1500 miles 
farther south, with the Sahara in between, because he 
thought—as I did—that these birds must have been intro- 
duced and are now feral in Marocco. 
The first more definite confirmation of Meade-Waldo’s 
statement was in a letter from Lt. Paul Saby (formerly 
inspector of forests in Algeria, and much interested in 
Natural History), saying that the Guinea-fowl (“ pintade”’) 
was common in the deep ravines of the Bou-Regreg and 
Oued-Beth, 7. e. between the rivers Sebou and Bou-Regreg, 
where he found it in the autumn in flocks of 30 to 80. 
This very definite statement made me deeply interested in 
the question. I wrote at once to Saby that an important 
problem was to be solved and that he must do his very best 
to send me one or more of these Guinea-fowls as good or as 
bad as he was able to—either these Guinea-fowls were once 
upon a time introduced into Marocco, and now feral, and in 
that case they would be one of the known species, probably 
Numida meleagris meleagris which lived from the Senegal to 
the Niger and Benué, or they were an indigenous form, and 
in that case they were almost sure to belong to an unknown 
species or subspecies. 
In answer I received a rough skin, which, though rather 
brittle, has now been made into a very good-looking skin 
by Rowland Ward’s able taxidermist, although it is moulting 
and, especially the tail, very incomplete. To Lord Roth- 
schild’s and my surprise it is neither N. meleagris nor a 
subspecies of the latter, but an entirely new species, which 
I name 
