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Afr. p. 589 (1884) [Maritime Dist. of Cape Colony : Swellendam 

 to E. London] ; Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 53. 

 Francolinus nudicollis, Gret)/, Gen. B. iii. p. 506 (184G) ; Layard, 

 B. 6'. Afr. p. 208 (1867) ; Graij, List Gallina; Brit. Mm. p. 48 

 (1867) ; Layard, Ibis, 1869, p. 375 ; Gray, Iland-l. B. ii. p. 264, 

 no. 9647 (1870); Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 209 [Lydeubur<r : Cha- 

 lumna, Brit. Kaffrai-ia] ; Holub u. Pelz. Orn. S.-Afr. p. 187 (1882) ; 

 Schaeck, M6m. Soc. Zool. Fr. iv. p. 314 (1891). 



Adult male. Lores, forehead, and superciliary stripe black ; top of 

 the head brown, with blackish shaft-stripes ; feathers of the sides 

 of the throat and neck black, margined on the sides with white ; 

 those of tlie mantle grey dotted with black, and with very wide 

 black shaft-stripes, llest of the upper parts umber -brown, with 

 black shaft-stripes, narrowest on the wing-coverts, lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts. Primaries, primary-coverts, and 

 secondaries brown, the latter with the inner web and the greater 

 part of the outer much darker. Ear-coverts dirty white ; feathered 

 part of the side of the face black. Feathers of the chest and rest 

 of tmderjjarts black, with white shaffc-stripes and an oblong black 

 terminal spot at the end of the shaft ; some of the long feathers of 

 the sides and flanks have in addition a narrow black shaft-stripe 

 within the white, and are margined on one or both webs with very 

 dark cliestnut. Tail brown, faintly dotted with blackish. Tarsi 

 with a shai'p pair of spurs. Naked skin round the eye and on the 

 chin and throat bright crimson. Bill orange-red ; legs and feet the 

 same. Iris brown. Total length 15"5 inches, wing 7"9, tail 3* 7, 

 tarsus 2*4. 



A ijouiiger male resembles the adult female in having a grey 

 chest, but the outer webs of the secondaries, as in the younger 

 female, are finely mottled with rufous buif, and a pair of short blunt 

 spurs are present. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in having the feathers of the 

 sides of the face and neck more widely edged Avith white ; the chest 

 grey, each feather with a narrow dark rufous shaft-stripe and 

 narrowly margined on the sides with the same colour ; and the 

 tarsi without spurs. Total length lli-o inches, wing 7"3, tail 3-4, 

 tarsus 2'1. 



YotDUfer females havo all the foatliers of the chest, breast, and 

 belly widely edged with chestnut, and the scapulars and the outer 

 secondaries are vermiculatcd with rufous buff. The skin of the throat 

 is thinly covered with scattered feathers. 



IJab. South Africa : Transvaal, Cape Colony. 



a. (5 inim. sk. 



b. (^ ad. sk. 



c. 2 ad. sk. 



d. 2 nd. St. 

 e,f. 2 iuim. sk. 



y. iS ad. sk. 



Lydenburg. 

 Capo Colony. 

 Cape of Good Hope. 

 Cape of Good Hope. 

 South Africa. 



South Africa. 



F. A. Barratt, Esq. [P.]. 

 F. Thackeray, Esq. [P.]. 

 Hardwicke JBequest. 



Shelley Coll. & J. Eocke, 



Esq! [P.]. 

 Mrs. Stirling [P.]. 



