6. FRANCOLINUS. 



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form a patch of white feathers edged and spotted with black. Rest 

 of the sides of the face and neck rust-colour, as also the outer part 

 of tlie chin and throat, centre part white, liest of the upper parts 

 iimher-brown, blotched on one or both webs with black, barred 

 with buff, and with buff shaft-stripes. Primaries and secondaries 

 and their coverts light chestnut, mottled with brown at the tips. 

 Chest aud breast light chestnut, with buff shaft-stripes, and here and 

 there irregularly barred or spotted with blackish. Belly buff, 

 blotched on one or both webs with chestnut; sides, flanks, thighs, 

 and under tail-coverts buff', barred with bro-wni and blotched here 

 and there with chestnut. Tail brownish black, tipped with light 

 brown and barred narrowlj' with buff. Tarsi with or without 

 small blunt spurs. Total length 13 inches, wing 6*5, tail 2-6, 

 tarsus 1"5. 



Hah. South Africa : Transvaal, Orange Free State, Natal, Cape 

 Colony. 



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21. Francolinus gariepensis. 



Francolinus gariepensis, Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr. pis. 83[c?]&84[2] 

 (1849) [Caledou & Vaal Rs.]; Grni/, LiM Gall. B. iii. p. 33 

 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 505 (184G) ; id. List Gullina Brit. Mus. 

 p. 50 (18(57) : Lai/ard, B. S. Afr. p. 27l' (18G7) ; Gray, Ha7id-l. B. 

 ii. p. 2U5, no. 9G57 (1870) ; Fimch S) Marti. Voy. Ost-Afr. p. 582 

 (1870) [part.] ; Ayres, Ibis, 1873, p. 282 [Transvaal] ; Sharpe, in 

 Layard s B. S. Afr. p. .509 (1884) [part.]; Ai/res, Ilm, 1886, 

 p. 292 [Potchefstroom, Limpopo R.] ; Grant, 76)'.-', 1890, p. 347; 

 Sc/iaeck, Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. iv. p. 340 (1891) [part.] ; Grant, 

 Ibis, 1892, p. 45. 



Chcetopus gariepensis, Bonap. C. R. xlii. p. 882 (1856). 



Adult male and female. Top of tho head and nape black, each 

 feather margined with rufous ; rest of the upper parts umber-brown 

 or greyish brown, most of the feathers blotched on one or both 

 webs with deep chestnut and black, barred with buff, and with buff 

 8haft-stri])es edged externally witli black. From behind the nostrils 

 arise a pair of superciliary stripes of mixed black and white feathers, 

 which pass along the sides of the neck, widely apart from one 

 another and never uniting at the back of the head as in F. levaillanti. 

 A second pair of white and black bands arise behind the gape, and 

 surround the white chin aud throat. Sides of the face rufous bufE. 



