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PHASIANIB^. 



Adult male. Top of the head, ear-coverts, back, ■wings, rump, 

 upper tail-coverts, and tail umber-brown, the lower back, rump, and 

 scapulars also largely blotched with rich dark brown on one or 

 both webs, and mostly with white shaft-stripes. Lores, superciliary 

 stripes, and sides of the face and throat, nape and sides of neck 

 bright chestnut. A narrow white band separates the superciliary 

 stripe from the top of the head, and a second parallel band running 

 from below the eye along the side of the head divides the hinder 

 part of the cheek and sides of throat from the ear-coverts. Chin 

 and throat white, some of the feathers tipped with chestnut. Mantle 

 and upper chest barred with black and white, and forming a wide 

 ring round the upper parts, which contrasts strongly with the rest 

 of the plumage. Lower chest and rest of underparts pale buff, the 

 former crossed with wavy black bars only, and the latter, especially 

 on the sides and flanks, with largo oblong black blotches on one or 

 both webs of the feathers. Outer tail-feathers darker brown than 

 the middle pair. Iris bright brown. Bill dusky ; gape and base 

 of lower mandible yellow. Legs dull yellow. Xo spur. Total length 

 11 inches, wing 6"2, tail 2'7, tarsus l-oo. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in having the back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts barred with buff', and the wing-coverts spotted 

 with the same colour. Basal part of the outer web of the inner 

 primaries and the outer webs of the secondaries clouded along the 

 margin with buff'. Total length 10"8 inches, wing o-9, tail 2-5, 

 tarsus 1-5. 



Hah. South foot of Mount Elgon and Masailand ; Central East 

 Africa. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Mount Elgon, March. F. J. Jackson, Esq. [P.], 



(Tj-pe of the species.) 



9. Francolinus sephaena. 



Perdix sephsena, Smith, Rep. Exp. Cent. Afr. p. 55 (1836) [Marikwa 

 and Limpopo II. J. 



Fraucoliuus pileatus, Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr. pi. 14 (1838) ; Grmj, 

 List Gall. B. iii. p. 35 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 506 (1846) ; 

 id. List Gallitue Brit. Mus. p. 52 (1867); Layard, B. S. Afr. 

 p. 272 (1867) ; Atjres, Ibis, 1869, p. 297 [Limpopo K.] ; Finsch ^ 

 Hartl. Voc/. Ost-Afr. p. 68(3 ( 1870) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 265, 

 no. 9667 (1870) ; Meugl. Om. N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 890, pi. 29. fig. 2 

 (1873) [Bechuanalandj ; Ayres, Ibis, 1873, p. 282 [Transvaal] ; 

 Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 386 [Limpopo to Matabele] ; Socage, J.f. O. 

 1876, p. 305 [Humbe, Mossamedes]; id. Om. Angola, p. 405 

 (1881) ; Sharps in Gates's Matabele L. p. 323 (1881) [Crocodile and 

 Gokwe R.] ; Holub u. Pelz. Om. S. Afr. p. 186 (1882) [Natal] ; 

 Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 360 [Gokwe R.] ; Sharpe, in Layard!s B. S. 

 Afr. p. 593 (1884); Fischer, J.f. O. 1885, p. 119; Ayres, Ibis, 

 1886, p. 292, 1887, p. 61 [Lehtaba R.] ; Schaeck, Mem. Sac. Zool 

 Fr. iv. p. 355 (1891). 



Ghoetopus pileatus, Bonap. C. E. xlii. p. 882 (1856). 



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