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are no wattles, but at the angles of the mouth is a kind of fold ; the 

 head and neck, beyond the middle, are naked, of a dull blue, 

 sprinkled only with a few hairs ; the space round the ears most 

 covered ; the fore part from the throat sanguineous ; on the head is 

 a large crest, of thick-set, slender, black feathers ; the greater part 

 of which turns backwards, but inclining on the fore part over the 

 bill ; the whole plumage is black; the neck and fore part of the body 

 plain ; the rest covered with bluish spots, little bigger than millet 

 seeds ; on some of the feathers four, on others three on each web ; 

 prime quills blackish brown ; secondaries the same, with four spots, 

 two or three on the outer margins broad and white ; the tail, which 

 has fourteen feathers, is crossed with undulated broken lines, but hid 

 by the upper coverts ; legs blackish ; hind claw elevated from the 

 ground, bent, and blunt at the end. 



Inhabits Africa ; all the three species above described are found 

 at Mozambique, but the Crested one most beautiful, and variegated 

 in plumage. 



In the drawings of Mr. Dent is a Crested Guinea Fowl : the bill 

 yellow ; plumage wholly blue black, with innumerable minute white 

 spots, in rows, appearing like beads, but the neck and crest are black ; 

 the feathers of the last long, and curved backwards on the nape ; the 

 whole head otherwise bare, wrinkled, and red ; legs brown. 



Found at Sierra Leona ; perhaps related to the one which 

 Marcgrave mentions from that place, and said to have a kind of 

 membranaceous collar about the neck, of a bluish ash-colour, and 

 a larger roundish black crest. 



I am greatly indebted to the late Lord Seaforth for the skeleton 

 of the breast of the Pintado from Africa, of which he had once the 

 living bird in his possession ; and as doubts had arisen in some minds 

 of the probability of the various sorts being related to each other, on 

 the death of it he was enabled to prove the fallacy of this supposition ; 

 for in the Common sort the Trachea proceeds at once straight to the 

 lungs, in the usual way, but in the other is so totally different in 



