guinea fowl

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Any of several pheasantlike birds of the family Numididae native to Africa, especially a widely domesticated species (Numida meleagris) having blackish plumage marked with many small white spots.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun An African gallinaceous bird of the subfamily Numidinæ; a pintado.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Any of several African birds of the family Numididae (6 species) resembling partridges.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white; native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world