18 CLASS AVES. 



Tlw Mitred Pintado, Lath. Num. Mitrata, Pallas, 

 Spic. t. 3. f. 1, head. 



And in this the head is armed with a conical 

 helmet. 



Body, black, white spotted ; with a longitudinal gular 

 pleat. Madagascar and Guinea. 



Nwn. Ptylorhyncha, Lich. 



In this the helmet is very small ; but at the base 

 of the bill there is also a small tuft of short stems, 

 almost without barbs. 



The Numida JEgyptica. Lath, described from 

 Germ. Orn. t. 232, appears to be a variety of the 

 crested species. 



The Great Genus of Pheasants, (Phasianus), Lin. 



Has the cheeks partly denuded of feathers, and fur- 

 nished with a red skin, and the plumes of the tail 

 arranged in an imbricated manner. 



At the head of these we place 



The Cock (Gallus). 



Whose head is, in addition, furnished with a fleshy 

 and vertical comb, and whose lower mandible has on 

 each side a fleshy wattle ; the quills of the tail, four- 

 teen in number, are arranged upon two vertical 



