BIRDS OF ETHIOPIA AND KENYA COLONY 113 



adult female. The female is browner, less grayish, above than the 

 two adult males, but the young male is even brighter brown. 



In the female the light tawny brown of the cheeks and auriculars 

 continues as a narrow band on either side of the lower throat, the 

 two bands meeting on the ventral side, completely cutting off the 

 black and white supraorbital stripe from the black-spotted margin 

 of the throat patch. In some males the connection exists and the 

 tawny brown of the sides of the head is, in turn, cut off from the 

 ventral band just posterior to the white throat patch, while in others 

 the condition described in the female holds. 



The tropical, eastern form uluensis differs from typical africanus 

 in that the rufous breast feathers are broadly tipped with plain 

 bluish gray in the latter and are variegated in the former. Mack- 

 worth-Praed ^° writes that uluensis is more heavily barred beneath 

 than is africanus but this is not upheld by the material I have ex- 

 amined. The only difference I can find between two South African 

 birds {africanus) and the four from Kenya Colony is that the bars 

 are closer together in the former. 



The present specimen was molting the remiges when shot, as the 

 next to the outermost one is just an inch or so long in both wings. 

 The other primaries are full grown and show no sign of molt. 



On August 29, 1912, while marching from the Thika River to a 

 camp south of the Athi Eiver and of Mount Donio Sabuk, Mearns 

 wrote as follows: 



* * * On leaving the Thika River we traversed a rolling country with 

 some trees and bush to a low bush-covered plateau beyond which we at last 

 obtained a splendid view of the Athi Valley * * * There were many 

 Francolinus uluensis at our last camp on the Thika; and I saw a flock of 

 8 or 10 as we descended from the plateau to the Athi. 



Earlier in the month (x^ugust 15-21) while collecting along the 

 Tana River, he noted birds questionably referred to this form, but 

 did not collect any. 



FRANCOLINUS AFRICANUS ELLENBECKI Erianger 



Francolinus psilolaemus ellenhecki Eblanger, Joum. f. Ornith., 1905, p. 151 : 

 Saemana, on the Abera-Ginir road, Gallaland. ^ , 



Specimens collected: 



One male adult and 1 female adult, Arussi Plateau, 10,500 feet, 

 (3,150 meters), Ethiopia, February 18, 1912. 



In the Journal of the "Washington Academy of Sciences ^^ I de- 

 scribed these two specimens as Francolinus africanus fricki^ new 

 subspecies, being confused at the time as to the characters of ellen- 



"ojbis, 1922, p. 116. 



01 Vol. 18. no. 14. 1928, p. 408. 



