{A paru le 20-111-1923), 



THE CRESTED GUINEA FOWL 



OF THE 



SOUTHERN CONGO BASIN 



By 

 JAMES P. CHAPIN, 



American Muséum of Natural History. 



Under the name Guttera cristata, Prof essor Dubois (i) reccrded 

 a Guinea Fowl from Lake Leopold II in the upper Congo basin; 

 but when the name cristata, or pallasi at it was redesignated by 

 Stone (2), came to be restricted to the Upper Guinea race, no attempt 

 was made to détermine the subspecific status of the crested Guinea 

 Fowl from the southern Congo. One reason was the scarcity of 

 spécimens : at Tervueren and Brussels, in 1921, 1 failed to find even 

 the individual referred to by Professor Dubois. Dr. Schouteden, 

 Conservateur at the Congo Muséum, was then in Africa and had 

 already sent home a large collection of birds, among which I was 

 permitted to examine nine spécimens of the species which we now 

 call, binomially, Guttera edouardi, They came from the région of 



(1) Annales Mus. Congo, Zool., Série IV, I, fasc. 1, 1905, p. 27. 



(2) Auk, 1912, p. 208 (G. edouardi thus came to replace cristata as the name of this 

 wide-ranging species). 



