176 PHASIAJflD^. 



2. Pternistes hiimboldti, 



FrancoHnus hmubolilti, lifters, MB. Akiid. Jf'ksensch. Berl. 1854, 

 p. 184 [Teto] ; Kirk, Ibis, 18t!4, p. ;J80 [Manganja Ilills. Zam- 

 besi]; Gray, List GalUnce Brit. Mus. p. 48 (1867); Finsch if 

 Hartl. Viif/. Ost-Afr. p. 581 (1870) ; Gray, Haml-l. B. ii. p. 264, 

 no. 9648 (1870) ; Schavck, Mem. S^^c. Zool. Fr. iv. p. 318 (1891). 



Pternistes humboldti, BiHai/e, J. f. O. 1870, p. oU4 ; Sharjte. ed. 

 LayanTs B. S. Afr. p. 589 (1884) ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1889. p. 370 

 [TnnaR.]; Grant, Ann. May. N. H. (6) vii. p. 145 (1891); id. 

 Ibi^, 1892, p. 53. 



FrancoHnus mulicollis, Fischer ^' Jieich. J. f. 0. 1879, p. 339 

 [Kipini] ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 597 [ Dar-es-Salaam]. 



FrancoHnus (Pternistes) leucoparseus, Fischer ^- Reich. J.f. 0. 1884, 

 p. 203. 



Pternistes nudicollis, Fischer, J. f. 0. 1885, p. 121 [Usegua] ; Eeich. 

 J.f. O. 1889, p. 270 [Quilimaue]. 



Pternistes leucopara>us, Fischer, J. f. O. 1885, p. 121 [Kipini]; 

 Matschie, J. f. O. 1889, p. 340; lieich. J.f. O. 18JX). p. 77. 



FrancoHnus leucopaneus, Schaeck, Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. iv. p. 317 

 (1891). 



Adult male. Upper parts as in P. nudicollis, but the lores are 

 ■white, the indistinct superciliary stripe black and white, and 

 the dark shaft-stripes of the feathers of the back &c. scarcely 

 extend beyond the shafts themselves, as in P. afer. Ear-coverts 

 brownish ; feathered parts of the sides of the face and throat white, 

 entirely surrounding the naked skin of the chin, throat, and fore 

 part of the neck ; sides of the neck black. Feathers of the chest, 

 sides, and flanks whitish grey, narrowly margined with black on 

 both webs, and with a moderately wide black shaft-stripe. Breast 

 and belly black ; thighs, vent, and under tail-coverts brownish 

 grey, more or less mottled with black, and with dark shafts. Tarsi 

 with two pairs of spurs, the upper pair short and blunt. Naked 

 skin round the eye and on the chin and throat blood-red. Bill and 

 legs the same colour. Total length 14 inches, wing 7"4, tail 3-5, 

 tarsus 2-4. 



Adult female. Eesembles tlie male generally, but difters in 

 haviug the lores black and white, the sides of the neck like the 

 back white, with a wide black band down the middle ; the breast 

 and belly show here and there, among the black, feathers with 

 remains of narrow white shaft-stripes ; some of the scapulars and 

 outer secondaries irregularly barred and spotted with black ; and 

 the tarsi are not armed with spurs. Total length lU'o iuches, 

 wing 7, tail 2-9, tarsus 2'2. 



In an immature sj>ecimen the cheeks and sides of the face are 

 white with black shalt-stripcs, the feathers of the breast and belly 

 are black with a white band on either side of the black shaft. On 

 the upjier parts the shaft-stripes are wider, and most of the 

 feathers of the lower back and scapulars are barred and spotted 

 ■with black. 



llab. East Africa : from the Zambesi to the Kiver Tana. 



