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The specimen before me has: 

 wing 305 mm., tarsus 85 mm, middle toe without claw 56 mm, 

 casque 34 mm, bill 25.5 mm. 



Irides brown; bill reddish grey with greyish yellow tip; 

 legs, dark-brown. 



IHernistes leucoscepns wfuscatus Cab. — Rchw. I, p. 455. 

 1 (5 24. 4. Kikuyu. 



This specimen, which is in moult, was shot in the tall grass 

 on the edge of a little grove. 



Wing tarsus culmen tail 



212 mm. 64 mm. 30 mm. 85 mm. 



Irides dark-brown; culmen black; legs dark-brown. 



Francolinus squamatus maranensis Mearns. — Rchw. I, p. 468. 



FrancoUnus schiltti Cab. — Lonnberg: Ark. f. ZooL, Bd. 9, No. 14, 1915. 

 Francolinus schuetti schuetti Cab. — Grant: Ibis 1915, p. 18. 

 Francolinus squamatus maranensis Mearns. — M.-Pread : Ibis 1922, p. 133. 



1 (5 ad. 16. 5. Soy, 8,00 feet. - 1 e ad. 25. 5. (6.500 feet); 1 ^ ad. 1. 7. 

 (11.500 feet); 1 ^ ad. 26. 6. (6.500 feet). Mount Elgon. 



This Francolin is divided by Mearns into five different 

 races, and there is no doubt that the 4 specimens before me 

 belong to the above race. 



Lonnberg (Arkiv. for Zool., Band 9, No. 14, 1915) has 

 made a very critical examination of the forms maranensis, 

 Tcapitensis and Jceniensis advanced by Mearns, and has come 

 to the conclusion that we can hardly approve of a single one 

 of them and Claude Grant has (Ibis 1915, p. 18) come to 

 the decision that of this "form-circle" we have at present only 

 two races (This opinion is also shared by S c 1 a t e r and M a c k- 

 worth-Pread: Ibis 1920, p. 847). 



In the same paper the last-mentioned authors say, that they are 

 by no means certain that F. schuetti is any thing but a race of 

 F. squamatus Cassin of Gaboon and that thus this group is a 

 well-defined one ranging throughout tropical Africa. 



M ack worth -Pre ad has later (Ibis 1922, pp. 129-132) 

 dealt with the group squamatus and separated 8 races, three of 

 which are to be found in Kenia Colony: F. s. dowashanus Mad. 

 F. s. suhsp. 3, F. s. maranensis Mearns. The distribution of 

 dowashanus is Kenia Colony— Tanganyika Territory boundary, 

 south of the Loita Plains, and of subsp. 2 Mau, Ravine, Laikipia 

 etc. and of maranensis Kilimanjaro, Kikuyu, Fort Hall, Aberdare 

 Mts. Kenia, Solai etc. — Thus, according to M.-Pread the, four 

 specimens before me should probably belong to suhsp. 2, of 

 which the author says: "apparently confined to high ground". 

 But this subspecies has a wing -measurement of 192—198 mm 



