162 PHASIANID^. 



29. Francolinus clappertoni. 



Francolinus clappertoni, Children, Denh., ^ Clappertori's Trav. App, 

 xxi. p. 198 (1826^ TBornu] ; Gray, List Gall. B. iii. p. 33 (1844) ; 

 id. Gen. B. in. p." 505, pi. 130 (1846); StricM. P. Z. S. 1850, 

 p. 219 ; Gray, List Gallince Brit. Mus. p. 51 (1867) ; id. Sand-l. 

 B. ii. p. 265, no. 9663 (1870) ; Keugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 886 

 (1873) ; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 566 (1882) ; Grant, Bis, 1891, 

 p. 125 ; Schaeck, Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. iv. p. 375 (1891) ; Grant, 

 Ibis, 1892, p. 47. 



Perdix clappertoni, Cretzschm. Bilpp. Atl. p. 13, pi. 9 (1826) [Kor- 

 dofan] ; Pdippell, N. Wirbelth. p. 11 (1835). 



Francolinus riippeUi, Gray, List Gall. B. iii. p. 33 (1844) [part.] ; 

 Riippell, Vog. N.O.-Afr. p. 106 (1845) ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 605 

 (1846) ; Antin. Cat. Desc. The. p. 94 (1864) : Gray, List Gallince 

 Brit. Mus. p. 51 (1867) [part.] : id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 265, no. 9664 

 (1870) [part.] ; Hartert, Eat. Mus. Senckenb. p. 194 (1891). 



Choetopus clappertoni, Bonup. C. R. xlii. p. 882 (1856). 



Adult male and female. Top of the head reddish brown ; fore- 

 head and a patch between the angle of the gape and the cheek 

 black ; ear-coverts pale brown. Superciliary stripes, cheeks, sides 

 of the throat, and back of the neck white with black shaft-stripes, 

 ilantle rufous brown, each feather widely margined with whitish 

 buff; back, scapulars, and wing-coverts like the mantle, but the pale 

 bull: edges are very irregular and most of the feathers are also 

 longitudinally or transversely barred with buff. Lower back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts umber-brown, darker along the shafts. 

 Primaries buff, darker towards the base of the inner web, brown 

 along the shaft, and mottled with the same colour at the extremity; 

 the basal part of the outer web of the outer primaries (where the 

 web widens) and the whole of the outer web of the inner primaries 

 is barred with dark brown : this gives the basal part of the wing, 

 when closed, a marked barred appearance peculiar to F. clappertoni 

 and the allied species. Secondaries reddish brown, barred trans- 

 versely on the outer webs with buff, edged externally ^vith dark 

 brown, and on the inner webs obliquely and irregularly with rufous. 

 Chin, throat, and front of neck white. Chest and rest of the under- 

 parts creamy buff, with wide blackish-brown club-shaped shaft- 

 stripes to each feather ; some of the fiauk-feathers are also blotched 

 with deep chestnut. Tail brown, with irregular wavy bars of buff 

 edged externally with darker brown. The male is armed with two 

 pairs of spurs, the upper pair being shorter and blunter. Both 

 mandibles blackish brown, yellowish at the base. j!iaked skin 

 round eye, legs and feet red. Total length 14 inches, wing 7-4, 

 tail 3-1, tarsus 2-3. 



Hah. Central Africa : Xordofan, Darfur, Bornu. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Central Africa. Capt. Clappertou [P.]. (Type 



of tlie species.) 

 0. 2 ad. sk. Kordofan. Petherick Coll. 



