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PARRIDAE. 

 9. Parra africana fCxm.). 

 ? Gamba^a, 14. 3. 1898. " Ins brown." 



HELIORNITHIDAE. 

 10. Podica senegalensis (Vieill.). 

 S Gambaga, 20. 12. 1898. " Iris grey." ' 



RALLIDAE. 

 11. Porphyrio alleni Thomps. 

 Moshi, 3. 7. 1898. "Iris orange." 



PHASIANIDAE. 



12. Ptilopachus fuscus (Vieill.). 



<f c? 'Gambaga, 7. 2. and 13. 3. 1898. "Iris hazel, cere and legs red." It 

 seems to me that eastern specimens (Kordofan) are niiich lighter, and with the 

 throat more brownish than our Gambaga birds, which agree with such from Sene- 

 gambia, but I have no fresh material from the east to decide about this question. 

 One of the two Gambaga birds, whicli are both sexed " d," the bird shot in March, 

 has the breast much paler. 



13. Francolinus bicalcaratus (L.). 

 <f Gambaga, 20. 2. 1899. " Iris brown." 



14. Francolinus albogularis Gray. 



(J Gambaga, 5. 2. 1898. "Iris brown." This male agrees entirely with the 

 type of the species in the British Museum. Besides this male there is a female, 

 whicli differs from the male in the following characters : The feather of the lower 

 hind-neclj and upper back have no creamy white shaft stripes, but are grey, with 

 a large black patch, traversed by rufous lines, on the margin of each web, and they 

 are rufous at base ; the feathers of the chest, sides aud flanks are blurred with 

 blackish brown. 



The tarsus has no spur. This female was shot at Gambaga, on October 4th, 

 1898. The iris was hazel. 



I have very little doubt, but further proof is required to show, that Francolinus 

 hicldeyi (Grant ex Shelley's MS., Cat. B. Brit. Mus. v. xxii. p. 145) is th6 female 

 of F. alboi/Klnris. The types from Accra, Gold Coast, differ from the undoubted 

 ? of F. albogidaris, as described above, essentially only in having more numerous 

 and narrower black bars to the feathers of the chest. These birds, which have been 

 named, F. backlefji, caimot, in my opinion, be considered to be the ? of- F. schlegeli, 

 from N.E Africa, which is oidy known in the male sex, and which is not yet 

 represented in any British collection, as far as we are aware. If /'. huckleyi is not 

 the ? of F. albogularis, then it must be that of a very closely allied form. 



