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WHITE-SPOTTED TURNIX. 
two years before he published his figure ; so irre- 
gular, indeed, does the letter-press to his work come 
out, that we actually do not know whether the 
sheet which relates to this plate has even yet been 
published. M. Temminck’s figure represents the 
middle of the neck and its sides as white, with fer- 
ruginous spots, and the breast quite white. Our 
nivosus has the whole of the neck and breast ferru- 
ginous with white spots 
SPOTTED- WINGED PINTADO, OR GUINEA HEN. 
Numida macidipennis , Swains. 
Body, wings, primary quills, and tail, covered with white 
spots ; head and part of the throat naked ; neck and breast 
purplish, immaculate •, gape wattled ; crown with a com- 
pressed elevated tubercle. 
All the authors we have consulted agree in stating 
that the common Pintado, or Guinea Fowl, has the 
greater quills of the wings white, and although we 
have not, at this moment, an opportunity of seeing 
this, it cannot for a moment be reasonably doubted 
that such is the universal character of the common 
species. That, however, which we shall now record, 
has the whole of the primaries spotted on a blackish 
ground, precisely with the same pattern, and in the 
