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shaft streaks characteristic of P. fuscus ; on the sides of the 
breast, belly, and flanks the wide chestnut middles to the 
feathers are much reduced, and the sides of the feathers are 
strongly barred with black and white. Iris, brown ; bill and 
legs, dull red. 
Total length about 10 inches, wing 4*7 inches, tail 3*6 
inches, tarsus 1*15 inches. 
NUMIDA REICHENOWI 
Numida reichenowi, Ogilvie-Grant. 
‘ Ogilvie-Grant’s Ibis,’ 1894, page 536. ‘ Sharpe’s Hand- 
List,’ Vol. I, page 41. ‘ Shelley’s Birds of Africa,’ Vol. I, page 183. 
* Reichenow’s Vogel Afrikas,’ Vol. I, page 437. 
This Guinea-fowl ranges from Teita westward to Taveta, 
and thence northwards to Elmenteita, and the northern 
Uaso Nyiro. It was named by Mr. Ogilvie-Grant from an 
example obtained by myself on the Kilungu River in Ukamba 
in 1889. It is perhaps more plentiful in Teita, at Makindu, 
and on the west side of Naivasha than elsewhere, but nowhere 
have I seen it in greater numbers than on the southern and 
western foot-hills of Ndara hill in Teita, between the two 
camping grounds, Marago ya Kanga and Mkuyuni, on the old 
caravan road. It was on the march between these two camps 
that the late Mr. Holmwood, H.B.M.’s Consul at Zanzibar, on 
his way up Kilimanjaro in 1888, killed twenty-two of these 
birds with two barrels of a twelve-bore gun. A large pack of 
the birds was surprised whilst drinking at a small pool in a deep 
water- worn ravine, and instead of taking wing they ran for the 
drift on the far side, and whilst massed together with head up 
were ‘ browned.’ Mr. James Martin, who was present on the 
occasion, vouches for the statement. 
In Teita this guinea-fowl breeds in January and February, 
and further north in March and April, and in some 
instances as late as June. After pairing, and until the 
young are well grown, these birds, usually very noisy, particu- 
larly in the early morning and when going to roost, become 
remarkably silent and difficult to find, so much so that a place 
where they are known to have been plentiful a month before 
