PLATE CCXXXVIIL 



NUMIDA MELEAGRIS. 



• PINTADO, or GUINEA HEN. 



Gallinje. ' 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill ftrong, fliort, the bafe covered with a carunculate cere receiving 

 the noftrils : head horned, with a compreffed coloured callus : tail 

 fliort bending down : body fpeckled. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 

 Caruncles at the gape double : gular fold none. 



NuMiDA Meleagkis : caruncula ad ri6lum gemina, plica gulari 

 nulla. GmeL Linn, Syfi. 744. J. 



Phafianus vertice callofo, temporibus carunculatis. Limu Sj/Ji, Nat, 

 X. p. 158. 



Meleagris. BriJJ, Av. L p. 176. w. Lh 18* 

 Gallina vertice corneo. Haffelq. it. 274. 



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