154 PHASIANID^. 



Adult female (type of* the species). Top of the head dark, feathers 

 with pale margins and ornamented by subterminal black spots ; 

 forehead black, clothed with sharp rigid feathers. Superciliaries 

 and hinder margin of the forehead chestnut, variegated with black ; 

 space in front of the eyes pale and cheeks rufous chestnut, with 

 the margins of the feathers black ; ear-coverts brown. Nape 

 chestnut, the feathers ornamented with two white spots on the 

 outer web and two black on the inner ; feathers of the upper back 

 chestnut in the middle, variegated with black and margined with 

 grey ; lower back and rump olive-grey, spotted and marked in- 

 distinctly with black bars. Upper tail-coverts the same, but with 

 wider black bars ; breast and middle of belly white, spotted with 

 black and chestnut, the side feathers spotted with chestnut and 

 barred with black and white. Under tail-coverts dirty white, 

 barred with black. Wings dusky, the lesser and median coverts 

 with semi-lunar subterminal black spots and pale margins ; wing- 

 feathers variegated on the outer web with chestnut, the inner ones 

 with white shaft-stripes marked with black transverse spots and 

 pale bars. Outer tail-feathers rufous, variegated with black ; 

 middle pair greyish olive, barred with black, with the tips paler. 

 Bill and feet dusky. Total length 12 inches, wing 6-6, tarsus 1'7. 



Hah. Lake Ciar-Ciar, Shoa. 



20. Francolinus levaillanti. 



Perdix levaillantii, Valenc. Diet. Sci. Nat. xxxviii. p. 441 (1825) 

 [Cape]. 



Perdix vaillantii, Temm. PI. Col. v. pi. 33 [no. 477] (1829). 



Perdix levaillantoides, Smith, Rep. Exp. Cent. Afr. p. 6o (1836). 



Francolinus levaillanti, Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr. pi. 85 (1843) [Cape 

 Colony] ; Gray, List Gall. B. iii. p. 33 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. 

 p. 505 (1846) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1864, p. 354, 1865, p. 274 [Natal] ; 

 Gray, List Galliwe Brit. Mus. p. 49 (1867) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. 

 p. 270 (1867) ; id. Ibis, 1869, p. 375 [Grootevadersbosch] : Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. ii. p. 265, no. 9656 (1870) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 261 

 [Transvaal] ; Butler, Feildeti, ^ Reid, Zool. (3) vi. p. 338 (1882) 

 [Newcastle, Natal] ; Sharpe, in Layard' s B. S. Afr. p. 596 (1884) 

 [Port Elizabeth, East London, British Kaifraria] ; Grant, Ibis, 

 1890, p. 347 ; Schaeck, Mem. Sac. Zool. Fr. iv. p. 338 (1891) ; 

 Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 45. 



Pternistes (Scleroptila) levaillanti, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. 

 p. 250 (1849). 



Cbojtopus levaillanti, Bonap. C. R. xlii. p. 882 (1856). 



Adult male and female. Top of the head brown, circumscribed by 

 the superciliary stripes of black and white feathers, which, starting 

 just behind the nostril, become confluent on the nape, and run down 

 the middle of the back of the neck, widening at the base of the 

 neck into a somewhat enlarged triangular patch of black and white 

 feathers. A second pair of bands of black and white feathers 

 arising close to the former, just above the angle of the gape, bound 

 the chin and throat and unite at the base of the latter, where they 



