PINTADO. 147 



A. — Meleagris pectore albo, Bris. i. 181. A. Id. 8vo. i. p. 50. Roman. Orn. i. 72. 



Bechst. Deutch. iii. p. 1147. 2. Temm. Pig. Sf Gall. 8vo. ii. p. 681. 

 White-breasted Pintado, Gen. Syn. iv. 687. Albin, ii. pi. 35. Brown, Jam. 470. 



This has a white breast, marked with large spots of black, in 

 which are smaller ones of white ; the four first quills, and the same 

 number of the outer greater wing coverts, are also white. 



This Variety is found in Jamaica, and perhaps in England also, 

 as it varies greatly ; in some the ground is bluish instead of black ; 

 in others so very pale as to make the white spots little conspicuous, 

 and not unfrequently of a pure white throughout,* specimens of 

 which are extant in several Museums of Natural History ; besides 

 which, one is mentioned byM. Bechstein, a mule bird, between the 

 Pintado and Common Cock, but as a rare occurrence.! 



2— EGYPTIAN PINTADO. 



Numida .Egyptiaca, Ind. Orn. ii. 622. Gerin. ii. 80. t. 232. 

 Egyptian Pintado, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 272. 



THIS has a pale red bill ; head and neck rufous, thinly furnished 

 with hairs, appearing nearly naked ; on the top of the head the 

 feathers are long, and stand upwards, forming a crest ; on each jaw 

 a folded, rugose, pale, blue skin, but scarcely to be called a wattle ; 

 the body is black, marked with bluish spots, much larger than in 

 the Crested Species, of which it may probably prove only a Variety. 



The above description taken from a living specimen in the Aviary 

 at Versailles, in the year 1728. 



* See Gerin. Orn. ii. t. 231. t Deutsch. iii. 1147. 4. 



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