CRESTED PINTADO. 



bars : the feet and the claws are dusky grey ; the 

 former are stronger than in the preceding species : 

 the irides are grey-brown. 



B. Capnd cristatum. 

 B. Head crested, 



CRESTED PINTADO. 



(Numida cristata. ) 



Nu. cristata ; corpore nigro albo maculato, crista in vertice pec- 

 toreque atris, plica membranaced ad rictum oris, gutture sari'- 

 guinea, collo superius nudo ccBrulescente. 



Crested Pintado, with the body black, spotted with white; the 

 crest and beak dark-coloured ; a folded membrane near the 

 gape ; the throat sanguineous ; the upper part of the neck 

 naked, and bluish. 



Numida cristata. Gmel. Syst. Nat, 1, 746. 3. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 

 2. 622. — Temm. Gall. Ind. 682. 



LaPeintade cornal. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 2. 448. 



Crested Pintado. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 088. 3. pi. 62, 



This species is smaller than the Guinea Pintado : 

 its beak is of a horn-colour, surmounted by a 

 bluish cere near the nostrils : on each side the 

 lower mandible of the beak is a skin, with a lon- 

 gitudinal fold, instead of a wattle : the throat, the 

 top of the neck, and the occiput, are nearly de- 

 stitute of feathers : the sides and hinder part of 

 the neck are of a deep blue colour : the space 

 round the ears is blue-grey ; and the anterior part 



