BIRDS OF ETHIOPIA AXD KEXYA COLONY 111 



FRANCOLINUS SEPHAENA SCHOANUS Heuglin 



Francolinus schoaiius Hetjglin, Oru. Nordost-Afr., vol. 2, p. 891, 1873 : Shoa. 



/Specimens collected: 



Male, Tollo, Ethiopia, December 14, 1911. 



3 males 1 female, Sadi Malka, Ethiopia, December 20-21, 1911. 



Male, Sadi Malka, Ethiopia, February 2, 1912. 



This form is exactly like the preceding one in color, but is some- 

 what larger. However, the size limits of the two overlap and I am 

 not at all certain that the distinctness of schoanus can be maintained. 

 I have retained it, following Mackworth-Praed °* and Sclater ^^ be- 

 cause both these workers have examined more material of this form 

 than have I, and I feel that their conclusions are not to be rejected 

 on the basis of a series of only the six birds listed above. 



The male from Tollo is considerably smaller than those from Sadi 

 Malka, and is also browner, less grayish above, particularly on the 

 top of the head, and may belong to a different race. 



The present series present the following measurements. 



As will be seen by comparison with the data given for grantii 

 these measurements all come within the limits of that form. 



The sexes differ in plumage as in grantii and the variations are 

 much the same in the two forms. One male (U.S.N.M. No. 243214) 

 has unusually long and apically upturned tarsal spurs. 



Both Sclater and Mackworth-Praed ^® give the range of schoanus 

 as Ethiopia, except the eastern part. This is rather inaccurate as 

 the form of south central Ethiopia (from the Abaya Lakes to the 

 Kenya border) is grantii, and no one knows what form inhabits the 

 extreme southwestern part of the country. In the southern part 

 of its range schoanus seems to keep higher up in the mountains than 

 does grantii. 



The east Abyssinian form spiloga^ter, of which I have seen but a 

 single specimen, is very similar to the present form, but has some 



"Ibis, 1922, p. 113. 



^5 Syst. Avium. Etliiop., 1924, p. 80. 



69 Sclater, Syst. Avium Ethiop., 1924, p. 80, and I'racd, Ibis, 1922, p. 113. 



