GUINGAMP  , a

town of north-western France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Cotes-du-Nord, on the 2 Specimens from the Gambia are said to be smaller, and have been described as distinct under the name of N. rendalli . 2 Darwin (Anim. and Pl. under Domestication, i . 294), gives this as the original stock of the modern domestic birds, but obviously by an accidental error . As before observed, it may possibly have been the true ueXeaypls of the Greeks . right bank of the Trieux, 20 M . W.N.W. of St Brieuc on the railway to Brest . Pop . (1906), town 6937, commune 9212 . Its chief church, Notre-Dame de Bon-Secours, dates from the 14th to the 16th centuries; two towers rise on each side of the richly sculptured western portal and a third surmounts the crossing . A famous statue of the Virgin, the object of one of the most important " pardons' or religious pilgrimages in Brittany, stands in one of the two northern porches . The central square is decorated by a graceful fountain in the Renaissance style, restored in 1743 . Remains of the ramparts and of the chateau of the dukes of Penthievre, which belong to the 15th century, still survive .

Guingamp is the seat of a sub-

prefect and of a tribunal of first instance . It is an important market for dairy-cattle, and its industries include flour-milling, tanning and leather-dressing . Guingamp was the chief town of the countship (subsequently the duchy) of Penthievre . The Gothic chapel of Graces, near Guingamp, contains fine sculptures .