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behind the ear-coverts, and enclosed between the continuations of 

 the superciliary and cheek stripes of rufous. Upper chest rust- 

 coloured, each feather shading into bright buff towards the shaft 

 and tipped with grey ; lower chest a mixture of buff and grey, 

 blotched at the extremity with chestnut on one or usually both 

 webs. Breast and belly whitish buff, irregularly barred and arched 

 with black, and conveying the idea of the whole being finely and 

 rather irregularly ocellated. Sides and flanks buff, barred on the 

 outer web with blackish grej' and with a large chestnut blotch at 

 the extremity of the inner web ; under tail-coverts buff, barred ■wdth 

 black. A pair of moderate, rather blunt, spurs on the tarsi. Total 

 length 13 inches, wing G-4, tail 3, tarsus 1'6. 



Adtth female. Differs only from the male in having no spurs. 

 Total length 12 inches, wing 6-3, tail 3, tarsus 1'5. 



Hah. Eastern South Africa : Transvaal to Cape Colony. 



a, 6. cJ $ ad. sk. Transvaal. J. H. Gurnev, Esq., & Dr. 



R. B. Sharpe [P.]. 



c. S ad. sk. Potchefstroom. F. A. Ban'att, Esq. [P.]. 



d. S ad. sk. Drakensberg Mts., Natal. W. H. Coblev, Esq, [P.]. 

 e,f. 6 2 ad. sk. Cape Colony {E. A. Butler). Shelley Coll." 



^. cJ ad. St. Cape of Good Hope. Hardwicke Bequest. 



h. (S ad. St. Cape of Good Hope. J. E. Reeves, Esq. [P.]. 



i, k. S 2 ad. sk. S. Africa. J. Rocke, Esq. [P.]. 



I. ? ad. sk. S. Africa. Mrs. Stirling [Pa 



m. (S ad. sk. S. Africa {Layard). Shelley Coll. 



18. Francolinus finschi. 



Francolinus, sp. ?, Socage, J. Set. Lisb. vi. p. 278 (1878) [Caconda, 



Benguelaj. 

 Francolinus finschi, Socage, Om. Angola, p. 406 (1881) ; Reich. 8f 



Schalow, J. f. O. 1882, p. IIG; Sharpe, in Layard's B. S. Afr. 



p. 598(1884); Schaeck, Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. iv. p. 381 (1891); 



Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 43. 



Adult male and female. Upper parts like F. gutturalis and 

 F. S2)ilolce7nKS, but differs in being larger and having a stouter bill; 

 the top of the head, back of the neck, and chest dusky grey; the 

 middle of the feathers darker ; sides of the forehead, superciliarics, 

 lores, cheeks, sides of the throat, and sides and base of the neck 

 reddish buff and unspotted ; chin and throat pure white ; the 

 feathers of the upper breast and flanks grey, narrowly barred with 

 buff, of the beUy and sides golden buff, all with chestnut spots and 

 margined with pale grey. 



Male. Total length 14-5 inches, wing 6-5, tail 3-2, tarsus 1-65. 



Hab. South-western Africa : Benguela. 



19. FrancoliiLas castaneicollis. 



Francolinus castaneicollis, Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxvi. 

 p. 542 (1888) [Lago Ciar-Ciar, Shoa]; Grant, Ibis, 1890, p. 350, 

 pi. xi. ; Schaeck, Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. iv. p. 371 (1891); Grant, 

 Ibis, 1892, p. 44. 



