152 PHASIANID^. 



Mr. r. J. Jackson, at Machako's, in the Ulu Country, should be in- 

 cluded in F. gutturalis or not. One would certainly expect to find 

 them distinct from the Abyssinian birds, and on comparing them 

 with typical specimens from Abyssinia the differences, although few, 

 seem to justify my separating them under the above name. Both 

 specimens are males with fully-developed spurs, and they differ 

 from F. gutturalis in the following particulars : — On the side of 

 the neck, between the continuations of the rufous-buff superciliary 

 and cheek stripes, and behind the ear-coverts, lies a well-marked 

 triangular patch, an inch or more in length, of white feathers with 

 black tips. There is no trace of this in F. gutiuraUs, but it is 

 equally distinct in F. africanus from S. Africa. Again, the feathers 

 of the breast and belly, instead of having black shaft-stripes, are 

 covered with irregular arch-shaped black bars, which give these 

 parts an ocellated appearance much as in F. africanus. The tarsus 

 is longer than in F. gutturalis, 1"6 as against 1*4. Total length 

 12 inches, wing 6-5, tail 2-9, tarsus 1*6. 

 Hab. East Africa : Ulu Country. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Machako's, Ulu Country, Feb. F. J. Jackson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of the species.) 



17. Francolintis africanus. 



Pearled Partridge, var. A, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 773 (1783). 



Perdix afra, Lath, (nee Miill.) Ind. Orn. ii. p. 648 (1790) ; Temm. 

 Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 337, 723 (1815) ; Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 505 

 (1831). 



PerdLs perlata, Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 326, 721 (1815) [part.]. 



Francolinus africanus, Steph. in Sha%u's Gen. Zool. xi. p. 323 (1819) ; 

 Gratj, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 265, no. 9660 (1870) ; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. 

 Coll. p. 566 (1882) ; Hartert, Kat. Mus. Senckenb. p. 195 (1891) ; 

 Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 43. 



African Partridge, Lath. Gen. Hist. viii. p. 277 (1823). 



Francolinus afer, Grag, List Gall. B. iii. p. 34 (1844) ; id. Gen. 

 B. iii. p. 505 (1846) ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1866, p. ^23 [British 

 Kaifiaria]; Grai/, List Gallince Brit. Mus. p. 50 (1867) ; Layard, 

 B. S. Afr. p. 270 (1867) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 84 [Welliiigton 

 to Ceres, Cape Colony] ; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 208 [Potchef- 

 stroom]; Sharpe, in Oates's Matabele L. p. 323 (1881) [VaalR.] ; 

 Holub Sf Pelz. Orn. S. Afr. p. 188 (1882) ; Sharpe, in Layard's 

 B. S. Afr. p. .595 (1884) [Grahamstown, Port Elizabeth]; 

 Schaeck, M^m. Soc. Zool. Fr. iv. p. 81 (1891). 



? Pternistes (Scleroptila) afra, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 250 

 (1849). 



Choetopus afer, Bonap. C. B. xlii. p. 882 (1856). 



Adult male. Upper parts and tail the same as in F. spilolcemus, but 

 only the outer webs of the inner primaries are mixed with chestnut, 

 and the secondaries are brown, barred with rufous buff. Ear- 

 coverts brown ; lores, superciliary stripes, and sides of the face and 

 throat rufous buff. Chin and throat white, more or less barred or 

 mottled on the lower parts and sides with black. A large patch of 

 black and white barred feathers is situated on the side of the neck 



