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but at the angles of the mouth is a kind of fold : the head and 

 neck, beyond the middle, are naked, of a dull blue, befet only 

 with a few fcattered hairs; the fpace round the ears moft co- 

 vered : the fore part, from the throat, fanguineous : on the head 

 is a large creft, compofed of thick-fet flender -black feathers; the 

 greater! part of this turns backv/ards, but the fore part of it falls 

 forwards over the bill : the whole plumage is black ; the neck, 

 and fore part of the body, immaculate; the reft covered with 

 blueifh fpots of the fize of millet-feed ; on fome feathers there 

 are four, and on others three on each web : the prime quills 

 blackifh brown ; fecondaries the fame, with four fpots on each 

 fide the fhafts ; two or three of thofe on the outer margins, 

 broad and white : tail crofTed with tranfverfe undulated lines : legs 

 blackifh : hind claw elevated from the ground, and blunt. 



This fpecies likewife inhabits Africa. Perhaps it may have Place. 



fome relation to the crefted fort which Marcgrave mentions to 

 have feen, and which came from Sierra Leon. This had a kind 

 of membranous collar about the neck, of a blueifh afh^colour, 

 and a large roundifh black creft *. 



* Caput tegit crifta rotunda, multiplex, conftans pennis eleganter nigris.— > 

 Marcgr. Hijl. Nat. Era/, p. icjz. 



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