6. FRANCOLIN0S. 147 



Francolinus sepliaena, Newton, Ibk, 1868, p. 269 ; Grant, Ibis, 1892, 



p. 42. 

 Scluroptera pileata, Gumei/'sed. Anderss. B. Damaral. p. 247 (1872) 



[N. Damaralaud]. 



Adult male. Top of the head lunbcr-brown, with black bases and 

 centres ; neck surrounded by a collar of dark chestnut feathers, 

 widely edged with white on either web. Upper back, scapulars, and 

 ■wing- coverts chestnut, shading into umber-brown in the middle of 

 each feather, and with a wide white shaft-stripe narrowly margined 

 with black ; some of the longer scapulars nearly black on the 

 terminal half of the inner web. Lower back, rump, and upper taU- 

 coverts umber-brown. Primaries and secondaries brownish black, 

 the outer webs of the inner primaries with the basal half chestnut 

 and the secondaries with the outer web edged with buff. A narrow 

 black, followed by a wider white, superciliary stripe ; a narrow 

 black line from the base of the nostril to the eye, and continued 

 behind the eye above the ear-coverts, which are brown ; rest of the sides 

 of the head white, the feathers of the fore part of the cheek tipped 

 with black and the hinder with chestnut. Chin and throat white. 

 Chest buff, with dark chestnut shaft-stripes, widening out into a club- 

 shaped spot at the extremitj' of each feather ; rest of the under- 

 parts butt' with pale shafts and finely clouded and pencilled with 

 greyish-black except on the middle of the belly and vent. Centre 

 pair of tail-feathers warm brown, outer pairs nearly black, washed 

 with chestnut towards the base. Iris hazel. Legs and feet red ; a 

 long sharp spur on each tarsus. Total length 12 inches, wing 6'5, 

 tail 3-8, tarsus 1*7. 



Immature males resemble the adult female, but are provided with 

 a well-developed spur on each tarsus. 



Adult female. Differs from the male only in having the middle 

 back, scapulars, and wing-coverts covered with wavy narrow bars 

 of buff and lines of black ; the lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts mottled with black and whitish buff. Iris hazel. Legs red. 



Hab. South Africa : on the east from the Marikwa R. and the 

 Transvaal to the Zambesi and westwards to the north of Damara- 

 land. 



a. S id. sk. Machloutze River, Baman- Shelley Coll. 



gwato's Country, Aug. ( T. 

 E. Buckley). 



b. S ad. sk. Transvaal. J. H. Gumey, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 c,d. cJ 2 ad. sk. Crocodile River, July. W. E. & C. G. Gates, 



Esqs. [P.]. 



e. cJ ad. sk. Marik-wa River, N.E. of Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



Kurichane. (Jj'pe of the species.) 



f. S imm. sk. Lehtaba, Umzeilla's Country, J. H. Gurney, Esq. 



May ( W. Ay res). [P.]. 



g. 2 ad. st. South Aiiica. 



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