150 PHASIANTD^. 



upper back, and lesser and median -wing-coverts chestnut, most 

 feathers greyer towards the middle, and with white shaft- stripes 

 narrowly margined with black : middle back and scapulars much 

 the same, but heavily blotched and irregularly barred with black ; 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts grey, irregularly spotted and 

 barred with pale rufous and black. Primaries and secondaries and 

 their coverts light chestnut, dark brown at the extremity and along 

 the shaft. Ear-coverts dark brown ; sides of the face, chin, and 

 throat white, some of the cheek-feathers tipped with dark brown ; 

 neck and rest of uuderparts uniform buff, with pale shafts ; under 

 tail-coverts barred with brown ; some of the feathers of the sides 

 and flanks widely edged with chestnut. Centre pair of tail-feathers 

 like the upper tail-coverts, outer pairs chestnut, more or less barred 

 at the extremity with dusky. Bill black, yellow at the base. Legs 

 and feet yellowish. Tarsi with a well-developed pair of spurs. 

 Total length 9 inches, wing 5-2, tail 2-2, tarsus 1"4. 

 Hah. W. Africa, Gambia, and Casamanze. 



a. d ad. sk. West Africa. Sk A. Smith [P.]. 



b. (S ad. sk. West Afiica. Governor Randall. 



(Type of the species.) 



14. Francolinus spilolaemus. (Plate III.) 



Francolinus psilolsemus, Gray, List Gallinee Brit. Mus. p. 50 (1867) 



[Shoa] ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 265, no. 9659 (1870) ; Heugl. Orn. 



N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 897 (1873) ; Giglioli, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. xxvi. 



p. 61 (1888) [Shoa]. 

 Francolinus ptiloleemus, Hevgl. Peterm. Geogr. Mitth. 1869, p. 415. 

 Francolinus spilolaemus, Finsch ^ Hartl. Vog. Ost-Afr. p. 586 



(1870) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. xxvi. p. 306 (1888) ; 



Schaeck, Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. iv. p. 374 (1891) ; Grant, Ibis, 1892, 



p. 43. 



Adult male. Top of the head black, edged with pale brown ; nape 

 buff, barred and spotted with black. Eest of the upper parts umber- 

 brown, blotched on one or both webs with black and with buff 

 shaft-streaks and bars of buff on either web. Ear-coverts dull 

 chestnut. Lores, superciliary stripes, sides of face, neck, and chest 

 buff, tipped with black. Chin and throat white, each feather with 

 a round subterminal black spot. Breast and belly buff, each feather 

 with a V-shaped black mark near the extremity of the shaft and, 

 as it were, supporting a chestnut blotch on the branch which goes 

 to the outer web. On some of the flank-feathers the chestnut 

 blotches are developed on both webs. Primaries and secondaries 

 and their coverts bright chestnut, mottled with brown at the 

 extremity, except the outer secondaries, where the mottling resolves 

 itself into three or four rather wide brown bars. Thighs and 

 middle of belly buff; under tail-coverts buff, barred with black. 

 Tail black, barred with buff. A pair of moderately-developed 

 spurs on the tarsi. Total length 12*3 inches, wing 6"4, tail 2-9, 

 tarsus 1'7. 



