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Numida g[aleata\ galeata Beebe, New York Zool. Soc. Bull., xxx, 1927, 139; 



Beneath Trdpic Seas, 1928, 220 (Haiti). 

 Numida rendallii OciLBy/Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 183S, 103 (banks of the Gambia). 



— Fraser, Zool. Typ., 1841-2, pi. 62. 

 Numida maculipermis Swainson, Birds West Africa, ii, 1837, 226 (Senegal). 

 Numida marchei Oustalet, Ann. Sci. Nat., ser. 6, xiii, art. 1 bis, 1882 (Gaboon; 



coll.) ; Nouv. Arch. Mus., ser. 2, viii, 1885, 305, pi. 14. 



Family MELEAGRIDIDAE : Turkeys 



■=Meleagrinae Elliot, Stand. Nat. Hist., iv, 1885, 222, in text.— American Ornithol- 

 ogists' Union, Check-list, 1886, 177.— Knowlton, Birds of World, 1909, 276, in 

 text. 



=Meleagrinae Carus, Handb. Zool., i, 1868-75, 326. — Gadow, in Bronn, Thier- 

 Reich, Vog., ii, 1891, 172. 



>Meleagrinae GisAY, List Gen. Birds, 1840, 60 (includes Numididae). — Baird, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 613 (includes Numididae). 



=Meleagridae Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 231. — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, vii, 137. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North 

 Amer. Birds, iii, 1874, 402.— Sharpe, Rev. Rec. Att. Classif. Birds, 1891, 68; 

 Hand-list, i, 1899, xi, 43.— Beddaed, Struct, and Classif. Birds, 1898, 302.— 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 283.— American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, ed. 3, 1910, 145. 



=Meleagridae Wetmore, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ixxvi, art. 24, 1930, 3. 



c=Meleagridid8e Coues, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway,- Hist. North Amer. Birds, 

 iii, 1874, xxvi ; Key North' Amer. Birds, ed; 2, 1884, 576. 



=Meleagrididae Oberholser, Outl. Classif. North Amer. Birds, 1905, 2. — Wetmore, 

 Smithsonian Misc. Coll., Ixxxix, No. 13, 1934, 6; xcix, No. 7, 1940, 6. — Peters, 

 Check-list Birds World, ii, 1934, 139. — Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds 

 Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 292. > 



Galliform birds with postacetabulum longer than preacetabulum, and 

 longer than broad; furcula weak and (viewed laterally) straight, with 

 rodlike acetabulum ; acromial process of scapula peculiar in shape. 



Bill rather narrow and elongate, the cere nearly as long as rhampho- 

 theca, the line of junction of the latter with the former slightly but dis- 

 tinctly depressed; nostril longitudinally narrowly oval^ elliptical, or 

 fusiform, about parallel with axis of bill ; head and upper neck nude, with 

 fleshy caruncles and corrugations and an elongated fleshy erectile caruncu- 

 lar appendage on anterior part of forehead in adult males (these caruncles 

 and corrugations absent or indistinct in females, in which the nude parts 

 are more or less covered or sprinkled with short downy feathers) . Wing 

 moderate, moderately concave beneath, the longest primaries longer than 

 longest secondaries, the outer primaries moderately, bowed or incurved; 

 fifth, or fifth and sixth, primaries longest, the first (outermost) about 

 equal to or a little shorter than tenth. Tail decidedly shorter than wing, 

 flat (not vaulted), rather strongly rounded (the difference in length 

 between middle and lateral rectrices equal to less than , one-fourth the 

 length of tail), the ' rectrices (18) very broad with slightly rounded or 

 subtruncate tips. Tarsus stout, relatively long (about one-third as long 



