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(cf) and is then considerably larger than the Soy or Elgon birds, 

 and therefore 1 cannot place them under that race. — 



There remains then maranensis, occurring, for instance at 

 Solai and on the Aberdare mountains, close up to the range for 

 siibs^). -2, and in spite of small differences (mentioned below) I 

 n?me my birds maranensis. — 



If dowashanus is a good race, occurring south of Loita 

 plains, then Grant's birds from the Amala River certainly belong 

 to this subspecies. 



The female specimen from Mount Elgon exhibits, however, 

 a number of colour- characters not present in the three males. 

 The whole of the lower surface has a predominant brownish 

 yellow tint and the lower tail-coverts are not, as in the others, 

 light on the edges but are furnished with 2 dirty-yellow patches 

 situated close to each another. 



Another specimen is in the moulting stage and the feathers 

 of the body are in parts much abraded. In the fresh dress the 

 feathers of the back, the wings and the tail are furnished with 

 close, wavy lines, but when the dress gets worn-out or when 

 the bird is in moult these feathers are of a uniform dark brown. 

 The dark middle part of the feathers disappears also. 



One of the males has two spurs on the right foot but only 

 one on the left, another bird has two on each foot. 



This Fraucolin is common in the Elgon region, occurring 

 now in small flocks, now in single individuals, from an altitude 

 of 6,500 feet above sea-level up to 13,500 feet. It almost always 

 lives in the vicinity of water, and at the rivers and streams near 

 Elgon 1 observed as many as 10 or 12 individuals together. 



Percival limits the range of this Francolin to "the edge 

 of Kikuyu forest, edge of Mau forest" (Journ. East Afr. and Ug. 

 N. H. Soc, vol. IV, No. 8, 1914 p. 151). 



Wing, culmen, tarsus, tail. 



Irides dark-brown; bill and legs reddish yellow. 



Francolinus hildehrandii altumi Fisch. and Rchw. — 

 ) Rchw. I. p. 477. 



1 (5 ad. 20. 4.; 1 Q juv. 20. 4.; Lake Naiwasha. 



The female specimen is not in full dress. Breast and lower 

 part of body pale rusty red. Most of the feathers of the belly 

 have dark, blackish patches at the shafts. Further, the chin is 

 more greyish white than in old individuals. The male specimen 

 has the feathers of the belly entirely rusty-brown. 



