172 PHASIANID^. 



with dark chestnut centres, widely margined with black and grey 

 vermiculations. A pair of strong spurs, supplemented by a second 

 blunt knob on the left tarsus. Irides brown ; eyelids coral-red : 

 biU dark coral-red. Front of legs coral-red, hinder part dusky. 

 Total length 15-5 inches, wing 9-1, tail 5*2, tarsus 2-S. 

 Hah. East Africa : Mianzini, Masailand. 



a. (S ad. sk. Mianzini. Masailand, Aug. F. J. Jackson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of the species.) 



42. Francolinus erckeli. 



Perdix erckelii, Riippell, N. Wirbelth. p. 12 (1835) [Taranta, N.E. 

 Abyssinia], 



Francolinus erckelii, Des Murs, in Lefebvres Toy. en Abyss, p. 144, 

 pi. 11 (1845-50). 



Francolinus erkelii, Gray, List Gall. B. iii. p. ?.3 (1844) ; Riippell, 

 N.O.-Afr.^. 106 (1845) [Abyssinia]; Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 505 

 (1846) ; Jleugl. J. f. O. 1862," p. 412 [Shoa : Galla] ; Gray, List 

 GallitKB Brit. Mus. p. 51 (1867) ; Finsch, Trans. Zool. Soc. \ii. 

 p. 293 (1870) [Senafe, Maragaz] ; Blanf. Geol. ^- Zuol. Abyss. 

 p. 423 (1870) [Senafe, Anseba, Undul] ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 265 

 no. 9662 (1870) ; Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 882 (1873) [Bogos, 

 Massowah, Wogara] ; Antin. et Salvad. Cat. Ucc. p. 134 (1873) 

 [Keren, Bogosland] ; Salvad. Ann. Miis. Civ. Genov. xxi. p. 2ll 

 (1884) [Shoa] ; Giglioli, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. xxvi. p. 61 (1888) : 

 Salvad. I. c. pp. 308, 540 (1888) ; Schaeck, Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. iv. 

 p. 368 (1891) ; Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 51. 



Cboetopus erkeU, Bonap. C. R. xlii. p. 882 (1856). 



? Francolinus icteropus, Heuyl. J. f. O. 1862, p. 412 [Semien, 

 Abyssinia] ; Hartl. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 666, pi. 39. fig. 2 ; Heugl. 

 Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 885 (1873) ; Scliaeck, Mem. Soc. Zool.Fr. iv. 

 p. 370 (1891). 



Adult male. Forehead, lores, and superciliary stripes black with 

 white shafts ; top of the head chestnut. Feathers of the neck chest- 

 nut, edged with grey, shading into white towards the extremity ; those 

 of the upper back and lesser and median wing-coverts grey or 

 greyish brown, widely edged on both webs with dark chestnut, and 

 the former have in addition more or less wide shaft-stripes of the 

 same colour or sometimes nearly black. Scapulars umber-brown, 

 with white shafts and blotched on the margin of the inner or both 

 webs with blackish brown ; lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts umber-brown. Primaries and secondaries and their coverts 

 the same. A white patch behind the eye ; ear-coverts reddish 

 brown, and rest of the sides of the face black with white shaft- 

 stripes. Chin and throat white. Chest grey, shading into white 

 on the breast and rest of underparts, each feather with an oblong 

 dark chestnut, sometimes black, spot at the extremity of the shaft ; 

 flank-feathers the same, but widely margined with chestnut on either 

 web. Tail-feathers dark brown, faintly vermiculated with black 

 towards the extremities of the feathers. Tarsi armed with two 

 pairs of equally developed stout sharp spurs ; iris brown ; biU black ; 



