148 PINTADO. 



3 —MITRED PINTADO. 



Numida mitrata, Lid. Orn. ii. 622. Gm. Lin. i. 745. Pall. Spic. iv. p. 18. t. 3. f. 1. 



the Head. Borowsk. ii. 184. 3. 

 Peintade mitree, Sonnin. Buf. v. 311. Encyc. Orn. 192. pi. 85. f. 3. Temm. Pig. 



# Gall. 8vo. ii. 444. 

 Mitred Pintado, Gen. Syn. iv. 688. 



SIZE of the Common One. Bill yellowish ; the head crowned 

 with an helmet, but smaller than in the other ; the crown, and about 

 the bill, dirty red ; on each side of the gape a longish linear portion 

 of flesh, pointed at the end, longest in the male, and red at the tip ; 

 under the throat a kind of wattle, somewhat similar to that of a 

 Turkey; the upper part of the neck is bluish, and naked; body 

 black ; the lower part of the neck transversely undulated with white, 

 and the body spotted with the same as in the Common Sort ; but the 

 ground colour is more black, and the spots larger ; legs blackish. 



Inhabits Madagascar and Guinea, but is not common. — Pallas 

 seems to think that it may be the bird mentioned by Columella,* as 

 differing from the common one; which will account for Pliny's t 

 having thought the Numida and Meleagris to be different birds. — 

 This species is common at Mosambique, as also in Abyssinia. 



4— CRESTED PINTADO — Pl. cxxii. 



Numida cristata, Ind. Orn. ii. 622. Gm. Lin. i. 746. Pall. Spic. iv. p. 15. t. 2. 



Borowsk. ii. 184. 2. Nat. Misc. pl. 757. 

 Peintade Comal, Temm. Pig. $ Gall. 8vo. ii. p. 448. 



Peintade a Crete, Sonnin. Buf. v. p. 313. Encyc. Orn. 192. pl. 85. f. 3. 

 Crested Pintado, Gen. Syn.iv. 688. pl. 62. 



THIS is less than the Common Sort. Bill horn-colour; base 

 covered with a sort of cere, in which the nostrils are placed ; there 



* De re rustica, lib. viii. cap. 2. f N at - Hist. lib. x. cap. 26 & 48. 



