Guinea-fowl. 
229 
This author is quite incorrect in his statement respecting 
the eggs of the guinea-fowl. They are not white, but 
light red, with small dark spots, and they are not larger 
than those laid by the domestic hen. 
A traveller in Sierra Leone, in 1607, also mentions 
this bird — 
‘ f On land are great numbers of gray parrots, as also store of guiny 
hennes, which are very hurtfull to their rice. This is a beautiful fowle, 
about the bignesse of a phesant, with parti-coloured feathers. (Purchas, 
vol. i. p. 416.) 
