NUMIDA PAPILLOSA 



DAMARALAND GUINEA-FOWL. 



(Plate 37, Fig. c.) 



Numida papillosa, Reichenow, Orn. Monastb., 1894, p. 145; id., 

 Vogel Afrikas, i, p. 444 (1900-01) ; Sclater, Ann. S. Afr. 

 Mu8., m, p. 355 (1905) ; Sclater & Stark, Birds of S. Afr., iv, 

 p. 231 (1906). 



Numida coronata, Sharpe's ed. Layard Birds of S. Afr., p. 581 (part) 

 (1875-84). 



Numida cornuta, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, p. 378 



(1893). 

 Description. Length about 22 in. The sexes are ahke. The 



figure in the Plate is copied from Sclater & Stark, Fauna of 



South Africa, Vol. iv. 



Distribution. This is the western representative of N. coronata, 

 and is found in German South-west Africa, and extends its range 

 in some places into the Kalahari. 



I HAVE met, in various parts of Africa, with five different 

 species of Guinea-Fowl, and all of them had exactly the 

 same ways and habits. I have not personally met with this 

 species, but it so nearly resembles the ordinary South African 

 bird, that its habits are doubtless the same. 



In the Fauna of South Africa it is stated that " a nest of 

 this bird was found in February containing sixteen eggs, 

 the nest was in a hollow in the sand and the eggs were thick 

 in the shell, creamy brown, without darker spots. Some of 

 these were hatched out under a hen and the following year 

 a pair of these young bred and produced nine young ones." 

 This contradicts the prevalent idea that these birds will not 

 breed in captivity. 



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