MAY, 1909. BIRDS FROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA DEARBORN. 145 



5. Pternistes leucoscepus infuscatus (Cab.). 



Pternistes infuscatus Cabanis, Journal fur Ornithologie, 1868, 



P- 4i3- 



cT, Dec., Lucania. 



9 , Nov., Athi River. 



See NEUMANN, Journal fiir Ornithologie, 1898, p. 302, geo- 

 graphical variations; id. ibid., 1904, p. 350, further notes on 

 variation; ERLANGER, ibid., 1905, pp. 140-144, distribution and 

 characters of subspecies. 



6. Coturnix delegorguei Delegorgue. 



Voyage dans Africa Australe, II. (1847), p. 615. 

 cf, July, Naivasha. 



Family Numididse. 



7. Numida reichenowi Grant. 



Ibis, 1894, pp. 535-538, Makarungu, Ukambani District, East 

 Africa. 



3 specimens, Nov., Athi River. 



The oldest of these specimens has the apex of its helmet 51 mm. 

 from the frontal end of its base. The helmets of the other two are 

 much less in size. "Sportsmen are in the habit of saving unusually 

 high helmets as trophies." 



8. Quttera pucherani (Hartl.). 



Numida pucherani Hartlaub, Journal fiir Ornithologie, 1860, 

 p. 341, Zanzibar. 



? , Sept., Mt. Kenya. 



"This species inhabits dense jungles and is consequently very 

 difficult to procure. It was only by inducing the natives to set nu- 

 merous snares that this specimen was obtained." 



Family Pteroclidse. 



9. Pterocles gutturalis saturatior Hartert. 



Novitates Zoologicae, VII. (1900), p. 29, Athi Plain, British East 

 Africa. 



