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GUINEA PINTADO. 



to the Crested Pintado, which was communicated 

 to him by Le Vaillant as a new species : it is 

 briefly described in the second volume (page 452) 

 of Temminck's Monograph on the Pigeons and 

 Gallinaceous Birds. It is called the Negro Pin- 

 tado, and inhabits the country of the CafFrarians^ 

 and lives in flocks : it possesses a very large crest 

 on the head : the whole of the neck is clothed 

 with feathers, without any naked space or wattles: 

 the crest, the whole of the neck, and the breast, 

 are of a dull black : the under part of the body is 

 grey-brown, spotted with white : the whole of the 

 upper parts are grey-blue, with white spots en- 

 circled with blue. 



Another obscure species is mentioned by La- 

 tham in the second supplement to his Synopsis^ 

 page 272 i this is, perhaps, nothing but a variety 

 of the Crested Pintado. 



A. Vertice galea compressa instructd. 

 A. The crown furnished with a compressed comb. 



GUINEA PINTADO. 



(Numida Meleagris.) 



Nu. corpore griseo-ccerulescente, guttis alhis consperso, capite 

 collogue superior e nudisj griseo cartileis, tuber e conico opics" 

 veftexQ in verticef membrana lata ad rictum gemind. 



