1G4 PHASIAJflD^, 



7}at. Ver. Brem. vii. p. 118 (1881) [Mahagi, Albert Nyanza] ; Shelley, 

 P. Z. S. 1888, p. 48 [Tingasi] ; Schaeck, Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. iv. 

 p. 378 (1891) ; Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 47. 



Aclvlt male and female. Lores and front of the head black, shading 

 into dark brown on the top. Feathers of the sides of the throat, 

 neck, and mantle black, margined with buiF. Back, scapulars, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts brown, finely vermiculated with black 

 and buff, the shafts are reddish brown, and most of the feathers 

 have a wide black shaft-patch becoming pointed at the extremity, 

 this is most marked on the scapulars, which, with the wing-coverts 

 and some of the feathers of the back, are irregularly barred and 

 marked with buff. Primaries and secondaries dark brown, the 

 former toothed on the outer web with buff and irregularly barred 

 with rufous buff on the inner * ; both webs of the secondaries 

 irregularly barred with rufous buff, and the outer speckled along 

 the margin with the same colour. An indistinct white superciliary 

 stripe, and a band from the nostril to below the eye of the same 

 colour. Space in front of the eye and cheek black ; ear-coverts 

 brown ; chin and middle of throat white. Chest black, margined 

 with buff and often with a lanceolate buff patch within the black ; 

 breast and belly the same, but the terminal portion of the black is 

 circumscribed by the buff, and forms an irregular oval or round 

 spot. Sides and flanks black, irregularly barred with pale buff. 

 Tail blackish brown, with narrow irregular wavy bars of rufous 

 buff. The male is provided with two pairs of spurs, the upper pair 

 being blunter and shorter ; the female has one or two pairs of blunt 

 knobs. Iris brown ; bill yellowish orange, culmen dusky ; orbit 

 and spot behind the eye yellow ; feet orange-yellow. Total length 

 13-5 inches, wing 6-8, tail 3-2, tarsus 2'2. 



The younger male, with only one pair of blunt spurs developed, 

 has the upper parts and wing-coverts more spotted and barred with 

 buff than the older males. 



Hah. Central Africa : Bongo, Djur, Kosanga, and west of Albert 

 Nyanza. 



a-c. S ? ad. sk. Tingasi, Equatorial Africa, Emin Pasha [P.]. 



Aug., Sept. 

 d,e. 1^ 5 ad. sk. Langomei-i, Equatorial Africa, Shelley Coll. 



July (Emin Pasha). 



33. Francolinus sharpii. 



Francnlinus rueppelii, Grai/ (founded on the figure of Perdi.v 



chipperfoni, Cretzschm.), List Gall. B. iii. p. 33 (1844) [part.] ; id. 



List Gallime Brit. Mus. p. 51 (1867) [part.] ; Finsch, Trans. Zool. 



Soc. vii. p. 292 (1870) [Seuafe, Kokai, Anseba Valley] ; Grai/, 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 26o, no. 9664 (1870) [part.] ; Blanf. Geol. S,- Zool. 



Abyss, p. 425 (1870) [Autalo, Lebka 8c Anseba Valleys] ; Setigl. 



Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 888 (1873) ; Grant, 76zs, 1891,pp. 125,126; 



Schaeck, Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. iv. p. 377 (1891). 

 Francolinus clappertonii, Des Murs (nee Childr.), in Lefehvre^s Toy. 



* The bars on the basal part of the outer webs of the outer primaries are 

 less regular and marked than in F. clappertoni and the other allied sjiecies. 



