6. FEANCOLllTTJS. 157 



a-c. S 2 ad. sk. Rehobotli, Gt. Namaqualand, Tweeddale Coll. & J. 



June (C. J. Andersson). H. Giii-ney, Esq. [P.]. 



d,e. S 9- ad. sk. Benguela. J. J. Monteiro, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 /. 2 ad. St. Western South Aihca. Purchased. 



23. Francolinus shelleyi. (Plate VI.) 



Francolinus gariepensis, Finsch ^- Hartl. {nee Smith), Vog. Ost- 

 Afr. p. 582.(1870) [part.] ; ? Fkcher S) Reich. J.f. O. 18S0, p. 140 

 [Zanzibar] ; Bohm, J. f. O. 1882, p. 19-5 [Kuin, Kamba, Kakoma 

 Dist.J ; Shellci/, Ibis, 1882, p. .361 [Umfuli R.] ; Butler, Feilden, ^ 

 Reid, Zool. {-i) vi. p. 338 (1882) [Colenso] ; Sharpe, in Layard\ B. 

 S. Afr. p. 599 (1884) [part., Umfuli R.] ; ? Fischer, J.f. O. 1885, 

 p. 120. 



Fraacoliuus shelleyi, Grant, Ibis, 1890, p. 348 ; Scliaeck, Mem. Soc. 

 Zool. Fr. iv. p. 77 (1891) ; Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 45. 



Adult male. Similar to F. gariepensis, but, as in F. jugularis, 

 there is a patch of black and white feathers at the base of the throat, 

 the chest is chestnut, the terminal part of the inner web of each 

 feather being pale buff, barred with black, and the tip grey. The 

 breast and belly white with ^^-shaped black bars ; the flanks and 

 sides are chestnut, with whitish-bufE shaft-stripes, and sometimes the 

 outer web the same colour and barred with black. Thighs, vent, 

 and under tail-covcrts pale buff, barred irregularly with black. 

 Total length 13 inches, wing 5-8, tail 3-4, tarsus 1-5. 



Hah. South-eastern Africa : Natal, Swaziland, Umfuli R iv er. 

 ? E. Africa, Zanzibar (Fischer). 



a. d ad. sk. Natal {Gordge). Shelley Coll. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Colenso, Tugela R., Natal, Nov. Capt. Savile G. Reid 



fc.]. 



c. cJ ad. sk. Swaziland, July (T.^. 5?«;fc&e/). Shelley Coll. 



d. S ad. sk. UmfuU River, Matabeleland, Shelley CoU. 



Sept. {J. S. Jameson). (TyP^ of the species.) 



24. Francolinus elgonensis. (Plate V.) 



Francolinus elgonensis, Grant, Ibis, 1891, p. 126 [Mt. Elgon]; 

 Schaeck, Mem. iSoc. Zool. Fr. iv. p. 347 (1891); Grant, Ibis, 1892, 

 p. 45. 



Adult female. Most nearly allied to F. shelleyi, from which it 

 differs in having the feathers of the head black, very narrowly mar- 

 gined with rust-colour ; the sides of the face and a patch on the 

 side of the neck, behind the ear-coverts and between the black and 

 white stripes, clear butf ; the car-coverts golden brown, with black 

 extremities ; the fore part, sides, and back of the neck, between the 

 continuation of the black and white superciliarj' stripes, rufous 

 chestnut, each feather ornamented with a round terminal black spot ; 

 the ground-colour of the rest of the underparts rich black; the 

 chest and breast feathers either chestnut tipped with buff and with 

 a subterminal wavj- black bar, or chestnut on the outer web and 



