SPOTTED- WINGED PINTADO, OR GUINEA HEN. 227 
same manner, as the lesser quills. This is the only 
material difference we can detect between the bird 
before us and the ample descriptions that have been 
published of the common species. Of this latter, 
however, we have procured some feathers, which 
enables us to state that those of the lesser quills 
and of the back are spotted precisely similar to those 
of our present bird. The difference, however, of 
the quill-feathers, is so important, that it is alone 
sufficient to separate them as species. It is im- 
possible from a dried specimen to say what were 
the original colours of the head, hut it is bare of 
feathers, as is the front of the neck, for more than an 
inch and a half from the chin. A similar portion of 
the upper neck would he also bare, but for a number 
of disconnected, black, setaceous feathers, or rather 
bristles, extending to an inch in length. In the 
middle of the crown is a compressed tubercle about 
half an inch long, two-tenths of an inch high, and 
one-tenth broad; the crown, as far as the nape, 
being thick and callous ; there is a wattle on each 
side of the gape, apparently of a red colour. The 
lower part of the neck, above and beneath, and also 
the breast, is brown glossed with purple, hut all the 
rest of the plumage is spotted with white. 
Two specimens were sent from Senegal, one of 
which is in our museum. 
Total length about 20 inches; hill, from the 
gape, 1 ; wings, 9| ; tail, from the base, 7 ; tarsus, 
2 ; middle toe and claw, 2^ ; inner toe slightly 
shorter than the outer ; hind ditto, 1 . 
