70 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 221 



Jackson, Birds of Kenya Colony and the Uganda Protectorate 1 : xxvdii, 



1938), Kenya Colony. May 24, 1909. Collected by John A. Loring. 



Original number 111. Smithsonian African Expedition. 

 Francolinus schuetti keniensis Mearns 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 56 (14) : 2, December 23, 1910. 

 =Francolinus squamatus maranensis Mearns. See Friedmann, U.S. Nat. 



Mus.Bull. 153:120, 1930. 

 214739. Adult male. Nyeri (elev. 5,943 feet), at the base of Mount 



Kenya, Kenya Colony. September 16, 1909. Collected by Edgar A. 



Mearns. Original number 16828. Smithsonian African Expedition. 



Genus PTERNISTIS Wagler 



Pternisles leucoscepus kilimensis Mearns 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 56 (20) : 2, April 17, 1911. 

 =Pternistis leucoscepus infuscatus Cabanis. See Peters, Checklist of 



birds of the world 2: 87, 1934. 

 117817. Adult female. Region of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanganyika Ter- 

 ritory. 1888 or 1839. Collected by William L. Abbott. 

 Pternisles leucoscepus keniensis Mearns 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 56 (20) : 1, April 17, 1911. 

 =Pternistis leucoscepus keniensis Mearns. See Friedmann, U.S. Nat. 



Mus.BuU. 153:127, 1930. 

 214721. Adult male. "On the west slope of Mount Kenia, on the N'joro 

 or Kasorongai River" (at elev. 6,500 feet), Kenya Colony. October 

 18, 1909. Collected by Edgar A. Mearns. Original number 17164. 

 Smithsonian African Expedition. 



Genus PERDIX Brisson 



Perdix daurica turcomana Stolzmann 



Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou (new ser.) 11: 79, 1898. 

 =Perdix barbata turcomana Stolzmann. See Peters, Checklist of birds 



of the world 2: 89, 1934. 

 159722. Adult male. Gulcha (elev. 6,000 feet), Kirghiz S.S. Republic, 



U.S.S.R. December 5, 1894. Collected by Thomas Barey. Received 



from the Branicki Museum, Warsaw. 

 This form was based upon a series of five males and one female from 

 Gulcha in what is now the Kirghiz S.S. Republic (not Kulja in Sinkiang). 

 Formal description did not appear before 1898, while the bird here listed 

 was entered into the museum register as early as June 23, 1897, but its claim 

 to cotypeship is confirmed by the fact that, in correspondence between 

 Stolzmann and Ridgway, the name turcomana occurred as early as April 

 1897. Our specimen must then have formed part of the series at the time 

 the name turcomana was first set in MS. The oldest label bears the name 

 "Perdix daurica (Pall.)" in Stolzmann's hand, to which, on or about June 

 23, 1897, Richmond added "turcomana Stolz." 



