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PINTADO. 



a pure white throughout, 

 in the Leverian Mufeum. 



Specimens of all which are to be feen 



MITRED P. Numida mitrata, Pall. Spic. iv. p. 18. t. 3. f. 1. (the head). 



Description. qIZE of the Common Pintado. Bill yellow i fh : the head 

 crowned with an helmet, but fmaller than in the laft : the 

 whole crown, and about the bill, of a full but dirty red colour : 

 on each fide of the gape is a longifh linear portion of flefh, 

 pointed at the end ; longeft in the male, and of a red colour at 

 the tip : under the throat is a kind of wattle, of a longitudinal 

 form, in which it feems fomewhat allied to the 'Turkey : the 

 upper part of the neck is blueifh and naked : body black : the 

 feathers on the lower part of the neck tranfverfely undulated with 

 white, and the body fpotted with the fame, as in the common, 

 but the ground-colour is more black, and the fpots larger : legs 

 blackifh. 

 Placi. This fpecies inhabits Madagafcar and Guinea. Pallas feems 



to think that it may be the bird mentioned by Columella* as 

 differing from the common one ; and will account for Pliny's f 

 having thought the Numida and Meleagris to be different birds. 

 This fort is not common. 



3* NumHa criftata, Pall. Stic. iv. p. 1.5. t. 2. 



CRESTED P. ...,■;. 



Description. TTHIS is between the Common Pintado and a Partridge in fize. 



.Bill horn-colour j at the bafe furnifhed with a kind of fpu- 



rious cere, in which the noftrils are placed : it has no wattles, 



•» De Re Rujlica, lib. viii. cap. z. f &&• H'ft- Jib. x. cap. .8. 



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