166 PHASIANIB^. 



Perdix (Francolinus) clamosus, Less. Traite cTOrn. p. 504, pi. 87. 



fig. 2 (1831). 

 Pternistes (Clamator) capensis, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 250 



(1849). 

 Chcetopus capensis, Bonap. C. R. xlii. p. 882 (1856). 

 FraDColinus clamator, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 268 (1867) ; Sharpe, in 



Layard^s B. S. Afr. p. 591 (1884). 



Adult male and female. Top of the head brown, -with dots of buff 

 round the margins of the feathers. Neck black, margined with 

 white. Kest of the upper parts, also the thighs and flank-feathers, 

 black, with two, three, or more narrow white lines equidistant from 

 one another and parallel with the margin of the feather, giving the 

 upper surface a general seal)' appearance. Primaries and second- 

 aries dark brown, the former vermiculated with buff on the outer 

 web and towards the extremity of the inner, the latter irregularly 

 barred on the outer and also slightly towards the extremity of the 

 inner web with buff. Feathers on the sides of the face dark brown 

 faintly edged with white, those of the chin and throat blackish 

 widely edged with white. Chest black, with irregular white shaft- 

 stripes, and thickly vermiculated with white ; rest of the underparts 

 the same, but with wide weU-defined white shaft-stripes and fewer 

 vermiculations. Tail black, with irregular bars of rufous buff. 

 The male is provided with one or two pairs of rather blunt spurs ; 

 in the female they appear to be absent. Bill dark brown, yellowish 

 at the base ; legs orange-red. 



Male. Total length 16 inches, wing 8-8, tail 4"4, tarsus 2-7. 



Female. Total length 15 inches, wing 8, tail 3-9, tarsus 2-1. 



Young birds resemble the adults in the general plumage, but the 

 feathers of the upper parts have white shaft-stripes, the throat is 

 white, and the rest of the underparts are brownish irregularly barred 

 with white. 



Hah. South Africa : Cape Colony, extending to the Orange River ; 

 Ptobben Island. 



rt, 6. c? $ ad. sk. S. Africa. Mrs. Stirling [P.]. 



c,d- 6 2 ad. sk. S. Africa {T. C. Atmore). Shelley CoH. 



p. $ ad. St. S. Africa. 



/. Pull. sk. Cape of Good Hope. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 



y. Pull. sk. Cape of Good Hope. Purchased. 



/(. S ad. St. Cape of Good Hope. Hardwicke Bequest. 



i. Pull. sk. Zoological Society Coll. 



35. Francolinus natalensis. 



Francolinus natalensis, Smith, S. Afr. Journ. (2) p. 48 (183.3) ; id. III. 

 Zool. S. Afr. pi. 13 (1838) [East and West of Port Natal] ; Gray, 

 List Gall. B. iii. p. 34 (1844); id. Gen. B. iii. p. 505 (1846) ; 

 Gurney, Ibis, 1860, p. 214 [Natal] ; Gray, List Gallinte Brit. Mus. 

 p. 53 (1867) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 273 (1867) ; Gurney, Ibis, 

 1868, p. 467 [Transvaal] ; Lat/'ard, Ibis, 1869, p. 375 [Mahura's 

 Countrv] ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 266, no. 9679 (1870) ; Buckley, 

 Ibis, 18"74, p. .387 [Transvaal to Matabelel ; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, 

 p. 209 [Rustenburg] ; Ayres, Ibis, 1880, p. 110 [round Rustenburg] ; 



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