Volume 5, Plate XXVIII / Ornithology (Birds)

Crested Guinea-Fowl

Numida cristata

Considerably smaller than the Common Guinea-fowl, this bird has bare head and neck of dull blue shaded to red, and in place of a hard casque an ample crest of hairy disunited bluish-black feathers reaching nearly to the nostrils. The whole plumage save the quills is bluish-black covered with small greyish spots, the quills pale yellowish-brown and the secondary edges pure white; it inhabits the Great Namaquas country.