234 PHASIANID^ GUTTEEA 



Numida verreatixi, Elliot, Ibis, 1870, p. 300 [Natal] ; P. L. Sclater, 

 P.Z.S. 1870, p. 383 ; Layard, Ibis, 1871, p. 105 [Zululand] ; EUiot, 

 Monogr. Phas. ii, pi. 44 (1872) ; Ourney, Ibis, 1873, p. 255 ; Sharps, 

 ed. Layard's B. 8. Afr. p. 585 (1884) ; Seebohm, Ibis', 1887, p. 350 ; 

 Woodward Bros., Natal Birds, p. 165 (1899). 



Guttera edouardi. Grant, Cat. B. M. xxii, p. 382 (1893) ; Shelley, B. 

 Afr. i, p. 183 (1896) ; Bendall, Ibis, 1896, p. 175 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1897, 

 p. 516 [Swaziland] ; Grant, Game Bds. ii, p. 98 (1897) ; W. L. 

 Sclater, Ibis, 1899, p. 112 [Inhambane] ; Alexander, Ibis, 1800, p. 

 448 ; Beichenow, Vog. Afr. i, p. 451 (1901) ; P. L. Sclater, P.Z.S. 

 1901, p. 1 [Wankies]. 



Numida sp. P. L. Sclater, P.Z.S. 1890, p. 86, pi. xii[nr. Victoria Falls]. 



" Inkankatori " of the Zambesi natives (Alexander). ' 



Description. Adult Male. — Crown of the head with a crest of 

 curly erect black feathers extending from the base of the beak to the 

 occiput ; the rest of the head and the greater part of the neck bare ; 

 feathers on the lower neck forming a black collar slightly washed 

 with chestnut, the collar extending downwards and over the upper 

 part of the breast ; rest of the plumage black with little round spots 

 of bluish white and faint indications of chestnut ones interspersed, 

 the feathers all narrowly edged with the same colour ; primaries 

 dark brown, four or five of the outer secondaries broadly edged with 

 dirty white, all the secondaries with longitudinal parallel lines of 

 pale blue formed by confluent spots. 



Iris bright blood red ; bill yellowish-horn ; base and bare parts 

 of head and neck shiny leaden-black, a loose flap of skin below the 

 occiput extending forwards over the ear-openings almost to the gape 

 "dirty bluish-white ; legs black. 



Length 20-0 ; wing 10-5 ; tail 4-5 ; culmen 1-12 ; tarsus 280. 



Distribution. — The Crested Guinea-fowl is found only in one or 

 two districts of Natal, whence its range extends to the Zambesi and 

 Nyasaland. 



The following are recorded localities : Natal — Karkloof Forest, 

 near Howick (Hutchinson), Coastlands north of Durban (Ayres) ; 

 Zululand — Umgoye Forest and St. Lucia Bay (Layard) ; Transvaal— 

 Zambana's country on Swaziland border (Woodward) ; Ehodesia — 

 Wankies (Zool. Soc.) near Victoria Falls (Kirk and Beid) ; Portu- 

 guese East Africa — Inhambane (Francis in S. A. Mus.), Shupanga 

 (Kirk) and Zumbo (Alexander) on the Zambesi. 



Habits. — This bird, which is far handsomer than the common 

 Guinea-fowl, is found in small flocks of seven or eight individuals 

 and frequents only the very densest and thickest bush. 



