PHASIANIDa; 



NUMIDA 



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numerous wild Guinea-fowls brought into the Pretoria market for 

 sale an individual with white quills though without the charac- 

 teristic white breast. 



664. Numida papillosa. Damaraland Guinea-fowl. 



Numida cornuta (nee Finsch d Hartl.) Gurney, in Andersson's B. 

 Damaral. p. 238 (1872) ; Grant, Cat. B.M. xxii, p. 378 (1893) ; id. 

 Game Birds ii, p. 92 (1897). 



Numida ooronata, Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 581 (1884) [in 

 part]. 



Numida papillosa, Beichenow, Orn. Monatsh. 1894, p. 145; Fleck, 

 Journ. Ornith. 1894, pp. 389, 390 [with col. fig. of head] ; Neumann, 

 Orn. Monatsb., vi, p. 20 (1898) ; Beichenow, Vbg. Afr. 1, p. 444, 

 fig. 7, on p. 436 (1901). 



Fig. 70. — Head of Numida papillosa. x \\ 



Description. — Eesembling N. coronata but with the bony helmet 

 more elevated, almost cylindrical and not flattened. Iris dark 



