TRUMPETER. 349 



and for the most part victorious, often killing: not only Fowls, but 

 Turkies also, and will follow the inhabitants, especially the negroes, 

 pecking their legs, and not unfrequently till they bleed ; the flesh is 

 reckoned as good as that of a Pheasant. 



2— UNDULATED TRUMPETER. 



Psophia undulata, Ind.Om. ii. 657. Gm. Lin. i. 721. Jacq.Vog.2A. 18. t. 9. 

 Undulated Trumpeter, Gen. Syn. Sup. 225. 



SIZE of a Goose. Bill dusky blue; the general colour of the 

 plumage on the head and upper parts, somewhat like that of a 

 Bustard, being pale reddish brown, beautifully undulated with 

 black ; the feathers at the back part of the head long, forming a 

 dependent crest; beneath the ears begins a list of black, which 

 passes down on each side of the neck, growing wider as it descends, 

 and meeting on the lower part before, where the feathers become 

 greatly elongated, and hang loosely, somewhat in the manner of the 

 Demoiselle Heron; beyond this, all the under parts from chin to vent 

 are white; legs in colour like the bill. 



Inhabits Africa. — The specimen, from which the above account is 

 drawn up, was brought from Tripoli. 



M. Temminck gives this bird as one of the synonyms, along 

 with the Ruff and Rhaad Bustards, as being the same ; that the two 

 last named are one and the same we can readily allow, as mentioned 

 hereafter; but in respect to the Undulated Trumpeter, if the figure 

 of it be correct, it cannot belong to the Bustard Genus, as it has a very 

 conspicuous back toe, similar to that of the Gold-breasted Trumpeter, 

 though the plumage on the back is very like that of the Bustard. 



