158 PHASIANID^. 



buff barred with black on the inner ; the belly and rest of the 

 underparts black, tipped and barred with buff mixed with rufous ; 

 the primaries and inner secondaries bright chestnut, barred and 

 mottled with black towards the tip ; the outer secondaries dark 

 brown, with regular narrow bars of buff and rufous on both webs. 

 Iris brown. Bill dusky horn, lower mandible fading into white 

 horn at base. Legs pale yellowish white. Total length 12 inches, 

 wing 6*9, tail 3-2, tarsus 1'8. 



Hah. Central East Africa : Mount Elgon. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Mount Elgon, Feb., 11,000 ft. F. J. Jackson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of the species.) 



25. Francolinus gularis. 



Wood Partridge, Lath. Gen. Hist. viii. p. 299 (1823). 



Perdix gularis, Tevim. Tig. et Gall. iii. pp. 401, 731 (1815) ; Vieill. 



N. Diet. (IHist. Nat. xxv. p. 198 (1817) ; id. Tabl. Encycl. Meth. 



i. p. .366 (1823) ; Graij, HI. Ind. Zool. i. pi. .56. fig. 1 (1830-32) ; 



Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 251 (1849). 

 Perdix monogrammica, Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 504 (1831). 

 Francolinus gularis. Gray, List Gall. B. iii. p. 34 (1844) ; Hodgs. in 



Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844) ; id. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus. 



no. 378 [Nepal] ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 505 (1846) ; id. List Gal- 



lince Brit. Mus. p. 65 (1867) ; id. Hand-l B. ii. p. 266, no. 9685 



(1870) ; Schaeck, Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. iv. p. 310 (1891) ; Grant, 



Ibis, 1892, p. 46. 

 Ortygornis gularis, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 573 (1863) ; Htmie, Nests ^ 



E. Ind. B. p. 544 (1873) ; Ball, Str. F. vii. p. 234 (1878) [N. vaUey 



of Ganges] ; Hume Sf Marshall, Game B. hidia, ii. p. 59, pi. 



(1879) ; Hume, Str. F. ix. p. 258 (1880) [E. Cachar], xi. p. 305 



(1888) [not in Manipur] ; Oates, ed. Hume's Nests ^ Fggs, iii. 



p. 437 (1890). 



Adult male and female. Top of the head and nape brown, rest of 

 the upper parts narrowly barred with brown, black, and buff alter- 

 nately, and with white shafts. Primaries chestnut, shading into 

 brown towards the extremities ; primary-coverts brown, dotted on 

 the outer webs with rufous ; secondaries brown washed with rufous, 

 and with irregular bars of buff, edged on either side with deep 

 brown on the outer web. Wide superciliary stripe, lores, and 

 cheeks whitish buff; ear-coverts dark brown. Chin, throat, and 

 front of neck deep rust-colour. Feathers of the chest and rest of 

 the underparts white or pale buff, margined on either side by a 

 black and then a brown band. Under tail-coverts pale rufous. 

 Centre pair of tail-feathers brown-chestnut towards the base and 

 finely vermiculated with black ; rest of the tail-feathers dark chest- 

 nut, tipped with brownish buff. The male is provided with a sharp 

 pair of spurs. 



Male. Total length 13 inches, wing 7-2, tail 4-1, tarsus 2-4. 



Female. Total length 12-6 inches, wing 6-8, tail 3-4, tarsus 2-1. 



Hab. Northern India : Terai region, skirting the southern bases 

 of the Himalayas from Pilibhit to Sadiya in E. Assam, Cachar, and 

 Tipperah. 



