87 [ Vol. xxxix. 
undoubtedly restrict the name meleagris to the Nubian 
ptilorhyncha. Linné, however, adds other quotations which 
all seem to refer to the domesticated West African species, 
though most of the descriptions and figures are too vague 
or too incorrect to show anything more than that some kind 
of a Guinea-fowl was meant. : 
The next quotation after Hasselquist is the ‘Museum 
Wormianum, 1655,’ where a quite insignificant description is 
given and an equally bad figure, reproduced from Marcgrave 
(p. 192, not p. 78 as Linnzeus quotes). The latter (1648) is 
the next quotation ; though figure and description are bad, 
no mention being made of the unspotted chest nor the figure 
showing it, it is clearly stated that these birds had been 
brought to Brazil from Sierra Leone. Then comes ‘ Barrére, 
av. 79, where we find a quite insignificant description; then 
once more the ‘Mus. Wormianum’; then ‘ Olearius,’ pl. 15, 
fig. 3, where a shocking figure is to be seen. Then Ray, who 
merely quoted from former writers; Albin, who figures a 
semi-Albinistic domestic Guinea-fowl; Willoughby and 
Aldrovandi, who neither describe any salient features nor 
give a locality, more than Africa. 
We may thus agree that Linnzeus’s Phasianus meleagris 
of 1758 and the Numida meleagris of 1766 is a mixture of 
N. ptilorhyncha and meleagris auctorum ; and if the name 
meleagris is not accepted for the West African (now domes- 
ticated) species, the latter must be called N. galeata Pall., 
a pame expressly given to the species now domesticated in 
America and Europe. 
Mr. W. L. Sctarer described a new Hawk-Eagle from 
the Cameroons as follows :— 
Spizaétus batesi, sp. n. 
General colour above dusky black, nearly all the feathers 
with white bases often showing when the feathers are rufiled 
or displaced ; primaries dusky, becoming blacker towards 
the tips, the inner webs below the notch ‘white with traces 
