272 
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GUINEA 
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2. 
EGYPTIAN 
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DESCRIPTION. 
Pe PE NY DA Dae 
Orper V. GALLINACEOUS, 
Genus LII. PINTADO. | 
N° 1. Guinea P. N° 2. Egyptian P. 
Numida Meleagris, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 621. 1. 
Guinea Pintado, Gen. Syz. iv. p. 685.—Id. Sup. p. 204. 
DR. Sparrman fays, he found thefe birds in great plenty in the 
inner parts of the Cape of Good Hope; and Mr. Levaillant * gives 
much the fame account; but adds, that being frightened from the 
trees, they run a good way, and on their attempting to take wing 
"again, are often caught in numbers: by the dogs, without firing a 
fhot ; the dogs firft frighten them, by barking at the roots of the 
trees, where they fometimes rooft by hundreds of evenings. 
They are likewife very common on the mountains in the ifland of 
Hinzuan or Johanna >. 
Meleagris egyptiaca, Ind. Ora. ii. p. 622.—Ger. Orn. ii. p. 80. tab. 232. 
HE bill in this bird is pale red: legs blueifh black: the head 
and neck rufous, and very thinly befet with hairs; the feathers 
on the top of the head long, ftanding upwards as a creft; on each jaw 
a folded rugofe fkin, of a pale blue colour, but not enough elongated 
to be called a wattle: the body is black, marked with blueith fpots, 
much larger than in the Cre/fed fpecies, of which it may perhaps 
only prove a variety. 
This defcription was taken from a living fpecimen in the aviary at 
Verfailles, in 1728. 
® Lewaill. Voy.i. p. 195. (Fr. ed. 8vo.) + Afiat. Refearch. ii. p. 86. 
