174 PHASIANID^. 



h" . Feathers from the gape to the cheek 

 white, 

 c'". Feathers of lower breast and 



helly black humboldti cJ , p. 176. 



d'". Feathers of the lower breast and 

 belly black, with a narrow white 



stripe down the middle humboldti 2 > P- 176. 



b'. Feathers of the lower breast and belly 



white, with a wide central band of 



black down the middle of each feather. 



c". Upper chest grey, each feather finely 



dotted towards the extremity with 



black ; with spurs afer c? , p. 177. 



d'. Chest brownish grey, with black 



shaft-stripes ; no spurs afer 5 > P- 177. 



c'. Feathers of the lower breast and belly 

 white, finely vermicidated with black, 

 and widely margined with chestnut. 



e". Without black shaft-streaks crancM d" 2, p. 178. 



/". With black shaft-streaks boehni d" $ , p. 179. 



d'. Feathers of the lower breast and belly 

 umber-brown, like those of the back, 

 with dark shaft-streaks ; feathers of 

 the middle of the belly mottled on the 

 sides. 



d". Edged with dark chestnut swainsoni S , p. 180. 



h". Not edged with chestnut swainsoni $ , p. 180. 



b. Neck-feathers white, with black and 



rufous-brown margins ; under surface 

 white, with broad rufous-brown margins 



and black shaft-stripes rufojnctus, p. 180. 



B. Feathers of the back and scapulars with 

 white shaft-stripes. 



c. Feathers of the chest white, edged with 



brown leucoscepiis S 2 > p. 181. 



d. Feathers of the chest brown, shading into 



chestnut towards the base, and with a 

 narrow white shaft-stripe, forming a 

 triangiUar white patch, at the extremity, infuscatus S 2 , p- 182. 



1. Pternistes nudicoUis. 



Le Gorge-nue, Bufon, Hist. Nat. ii. p. 444 (1771). 



Bare-necked Partridge, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 759 (1783). 



Tetrao uudicollis, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl.^. 11. no. 180 (178.3) ; Gmel. 



Syst. Nat. i. p. 759 (1788). 

 Perdix nudicollis. Lath. Ltd. Orn. ii. p. 644 (1790) ; Bonnat. Tabl. 



Encycl. Meth. i. p. 215 (1791) ; Tenmi. Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 317, 



720 (1815) [part.] ; Vinll. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxv. p. 236 (1817) ; 



Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 604 (1831). 

 Francolinus capensis, Staph, in Shale's Gen. Zool. xi. p. 333 (1819) 



[part.]. 

 Pternistis capensis, Wagl. Isis, 1832, p. 1229. 

 Pternistes nudicollis, Gray, List Gall. B. iii. p. 32 (1844) ; Blyth, 



Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 250 (1849) ; Sharpe, in Layard's B. S. 



