160 PHASIANIDJ;. 



d. $ ad. sk. Otjimbinque, Damaraland, Tweeddale Coll. 



Sept. (C. J. Andersson). 

 e,f. Ad. etimm. Western S. Africa. Zoological Soc. Coll. 



sk. 

 g. S ad. st. Western S. Africa. 



27. Prancolinus griseostriatus. 



Francolinus griseostriatus, Grant, Ibis, 1890, p. 349, pi. x. [Quanza 

 R.] ; Schaeck, Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. iv. p. 348 (1891) ; Grant, Ibis, 

 1892, p. 46. 



Adult male. Top of the head grej^ish brown ; lores, cheeks, ear- 

 coverts, superciliary stripes, and sides of throat reddish white, paler 

 in front of and behind the eye. Feathers of the back of the neck, 

 back, scapulars, and outer secondaries dark chestnut down the 

 middle, margined on either side by a black and pearl-grey band ; 

 the scapulars and outer secondaries are also irregularly vermiculated 

 and barred with black. Wing-coverts, lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts umber-brown finely vermiculated with dusky brown and 

 buff. Primaries and secondaries reddish chestnut, darker on the 

 inner webs, vermiculated and irregularly banded on both webs with 

 black. Chin and middle of throat white. Feathers of the front of 

 the neck and upper chest rufous chestnut, widely edged with whitish 

 grey. Breast, bellj', thighs, and under tail-coverts with wide dull 

 rufous shaft-stripes, slightly vermiculated on the flanks with black. 

 Tail rufous chestnut, the middle feathers pale buff on the edges of 

 webs, and all transversely vermiculated with black, though on the 

 outer feathers this is confined to the extremity. Under surface of 

 wings silver-grey, vermiculated with very dull rufous buff. A pair 

 of long sharp spurs on the tarsi. Bill dark brown, the tip, basal 

 part, and lower mandible yellow. Legs and feet yellow ; spurs dark 

 brown. Total length 12-5 inches, wing 6"3, tail 3*2, tarsus 1*7. 



Hab. River Quanza *, W. Africa. 



a. S ad. sk. River Quanza. Dr. R. B. Sharpe [P.]. 



(Type of the species.) 



28. Francolinus bicalcaratus. 



Tetrao bicalcaratus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 277 (1766). 



Perdrix du Senegal, Dauhent. PI. Enl. ii. pi. 47 (no. 137). 



Senegal Partridge, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 757 (1783) ; id. Gen. Hist. 



viii. p. 267 (1823). 

 Perdix bicalcarata, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 643 (1790). 

 Perdix senegalensis, Bonn. Tabl. Enc. M. i. p. 212, pi. 93. fig. 2 (1791). 

 Perdix adansonii, Temni. Piy. et Gall. iii. pp. 305, 717 (1815) ; Leas. 



r/Wfe-c^'Om. p. 504(1831). 

 Francolinus senegalensis, Steph., Shaw's Gen. Zool. xi. p. 330 (1819). 

 Choetopus adansoni, Swains. B. West Afr. ii. p. 217 (1837) [Senegal]. 

 Francolinus bicalcaratus. Gray, List Gall. B. iii. p. 33 (1844) ; id. Gen. 



* Written by accident " Congo " in the original description. 



