Guineafowl

This is an African family of seed-eating ground-nesting birds resembling partridges, but with featherless heads and spangled grey plumage. The Helmeted Guineafowl has been domesticated and introduced outside its natural range, for example in southern France and the West Indies.

The six species are in this group are related to other members of the gamebird family thus.

Order: Galliformes

• Megapodidae megapodes
• Cracidae chachalacas, guans and curassows[?]
• Tetraonidae grouse
• Phasianidae partridges, pheasants, quails etc.
• Odontophoridae New World quails
• Numididae guineafowl
  • White-breasted Guineafowl, Agelastes meleagrides
  • Black Guineafowl, Agelastes niger
  • Helmeted Guineafowl[?], Numida meleagris
  • Plumed Guineafowl, Guttera plumifera
  • Crested Guineafowl, Guttera pucherani
  • Vulturine Guineafowl Acryllium vulturinum
• Meleagrididae turkeys
• Mesitornithidae mesites[?]
• Turnicidae buttonquails

The buttonquails are sometimes given order status as the Turniciformes.