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B. iii. p. 505 (1846) ; Hartl. J. f. 0. 1854, p. 209 [Senepral, Gambia 

 R. Ni^er] ; id. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 201 (1857) ; Gray, List GalUyKP 

 JBrit. Mus. p. 49 (18G7) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 265, no. 9655 

 (1870); Sharpe, Ibis, 1872, p. 73 [Accra]; Shelley \- Buckley, 

 Ibis, 1872, p. 290 [Accra] ; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 72 [Gold Coast] ; 

 Beich.J.f. O. 1874, p. 383 [Gold Coast]; Forbes, Ibis, 1883, p. 518 

 [E^ga, K. Niger] ; Shelley, Ibis, 188:3, p. 560 [Shonga,_R. Niger]; 

 lieidflbis, 1885, p. 251[Mogador; C. Blanco, Morocco'; Hartert, 

 J. f. O. 1886, p. 602 [Loko , ; Schaeck, Mem. Soc. Z'ool. Fr. iv. 

 p. 335 (1891) ; Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 46. 



Didymacis senegalensis, Reichenb. Handb., Gall. fig. 1768 (1853). 



Francolinus albiscapus, Reichenb. Handb., Gall. figs. 175-3-54 (1853). 



Chcetopus bicalcaratus, Bonap. C. R. xlii. p. SS2 (1856). 



Adult male and female. Top of the head brown, shading into 

 rufous brown or dull rufous on the nape ; neck chestnut, with an 

 oval black spot edged with buff on the outer half of the shaft of 

 each feather, but in some specimens the rufous is almost wanting 

 on the back of the neck, and the feathers are almost entirely black 

 margined with white. Upper back, ■wing-coverts, and scapulars 

 brown vermiculated with black, and with a submarginal white band 

 on either side of the feather ; lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts umber-brown, black along the shafts and vermiculated with 

 the same colour. Primaries dark brown, toothed on the outer web 

 with buif and irregularly barred either longitudinally or trans- 

 versely on the inner web with rufous buff. Secondaries dark brown, 

 mottled with pale buff on the outer web and barred with rufous buff 

 on both. Lores, upper supercihary stripe, and stripe from the nostril 

 to the eye black ; lower superciliary stripe and space in front of 

 the eye white : cheeks and sides and base of the throat white, with 

 black shaft-stripes ; ear-coverts shining rufous brown. Chin and 

 rest of the throat pure white. Each feather of the chest and rest 

 of the underparts is pale buff, flanked for the basal two-thirds with 

 chestnut and with a wide raquet-shaped black shaft-stripe, within 

 which, along the shaft itself, is a clear line of buff succeeded by a 

 detached subtcrminal V-shaped spot of the same colour ; flanks 

 and under tail-coverts bufl", with wide black shaft-stripes. Tail 

 black, barred and clouded -with rufous buff'. The male has two pairs 

 of spurs, the second (upper) pair being much shorter and less pointed. 

 Total length 12-5 inches, wing 6-8, tail 2"o, tarsus 2*1. 



Hah. West Africa, from the Niger to the Mogador coast and 

 C. Blanco, Morocco. 



a. cJ ad. sk. C. Blanco, Morocco (Olcese). Capt. S. G. Reid [C.]. 



6. cJ ad. sk. Senegal ((TFinville). Riocour Coll. 



c,d. (S 2 »d. sk. Gambia (Sir A. Moloney). Shellev Coll. 



e-h. d" 2 ad. et Accra, Feb., April (T. E. Shelley Coll. 



imm. sk. Buckley, G. £. S., Gov. 



Ussher). 



i. cJ ad. sk. Shonga. W.A. Forbes, Esq. [P.]. 



k-m. (S 2 ad. et West Africa. Purchased. 



juv. sk. 



n,o. cJ 2 ad. st. West Africa. 

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