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The race dowashmius is rather puzzling. In the original descrip- 

 tion ^^ Madarasz writes that it is similar to squamatus but generally 

 lighter and grayer, the chief color of the underparts being creamy 

 white, the feathers with grayish-brown median stripes. The range 

 is given above. Three birds in the Museum of Comparative Zoology 

 from Chantwara, Bukoba, Tanganyika Territory, are very light even 

 for sappeyi, to which race they belong, and might pass examination 

 as dowashanus. However, a female zappeyi from Kibati, Belgian 

 Congo, of the subspecific identity of which there can be no question, 

 because of locality, is just as white below as the Chantwara speci- 

 mens. I have seen no typical dowashanus and am not in a position 

 definitely to decide the merits of the form, but either it is a poorly 

 marked version of zapfeyi or the Chantwara birds are intermediates 

 which would extend the range of dowashanus considerably to the 

 westward. 



When reporting on the birds collected by Loveridge in the Usam- 

 bara and Uluguru Mountains, Tanganyika Territory,'^* I recorded a 

 specimen of maranensis and wrote that " * * * with the lim- 

 ited material at hand * * * j ^^^^ ^^^ g^^ ^^y difference between 

 niaranensis and dotuasTianusr This is misleading, as these two are 

 perfectly distinct, but at the time I had not examined specimens of 

 zo/p-peyi."" The bird referred to is moranensis^ but is slightly differ- 

 ent from any other example seen by me. The throat is pure white, 

 bordered on each side by a wide band of blackish spots on a white 

 background; the lores and the region around and behind the eyes are 

 also whitish, finely and very sparsely dotted with black. 



The color of the upper parts is quite variable in all races of this 

 francolin. In niaranensis some individuals have these parts deep, 

 rich brownish, while others have the feathers broadly margined with 

 gi-ayish, giving a lighter effect. The typical race squamatus of 

 Cameroon is perhaps the most variable in this respect, the extremes 

 being very different. 



In fresh adult plumage maranensis has the feathers of the nape 

 laterally edged with light grayish, making that area appear very dis- 

 tinct from the rest of the back. These edgings wear off until they 

 are almost entirely lacking, and in worn plumage the nape and inter- 

 scapulars are no longer noticeabl}^ different. Granvik '^° reports that 

 in his female specimen the under tail coverts are not light on the 

 edges as in the males, but have " * * * two dirty yellow patches 



"Ann. Mus. Hung., vol. 13, 1915, p. 394. 



•*Ibis, 1928, pp. 75-76. ^ 



^^ Since this manuscript was completed, Conover (Aulc, vol. 45, 1928, p. 356) has 

 named this bird usambarae (range — the Usambara Mountains). I find that this race is 

 valid, as the characters given by Conover (based on 5 birds) are the same as the dlffer- 

 tnoi'.s pointed out above. 



'«Journ. f. Ornith., 1923. Sonderheft, pp. 59-60. 



