I. PTERXISTES. 177 



n. 2 ad. sk. Manganja Ifills, Zambesi Dist. Sir John Kirk [P.]. 



b. S ad. 8t. Mazoro {Sir J. Kirk). Livingstone Eiped. 



c. 2 imm. sk. Dar-es-Salaaiu (Sir J. Kirk). Shelley Coll. 



d. ? ad. sk. River Tana. Sept. H. C. V. Hunter 



Esq. [P.]. 



3. Pternistes afer. 



La Perdrix d'Afrique, UAuhent. PI. E>d. ii. pL 48 (no. 180). 



La Perdrix ronp-e d'Afrique, Buf. Hist. Nat. ii. p. 444 (1771). 



Tetrao afer, Miill. S. N. Suppl. p. 129 (1776). 



Red-necked Partridge, Lath. Gen. ■Sun. ii. p. 771 (1783); id. Gen. 

 .ffw<. viii. p. 266(1823). 



Tetrao rubricollis, Gmel Syst. Nat. i. p. 758 (1788). 



Perdix rubricollis, Lath. Ind. Om.u. p. 648(1790); Bonn. Tabl. 

 Encx/d. Meth. i. p. 208, pi. 94. fig. 3 (1791). 



Perdix nudicollis, Temm. Pig. et Gal iii. pp. 317, 720 (1815) [part.]. 



Francolinus rubricollis, St-eph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xi. p. 335 (1819) ; 

 Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 50G (1846j [part.l. 



Pternistes sclat«ri, Socage, J. Sc. Lisb. i. p. 327. pi. vi. (1868) 

 [Mossamedesl, ii. p. 49 (1868) [HuiUaj ; id. J. f. O. 1876, p. 3a3. 



Pternistes rubricollis, Bocage, J. Sci. Lisb. iii.' p. 175 (1871), iv. 

 p. 190 (1872) [Humbe], vi. p. 69 (1877) [Benguela", pp. 149, 207 

 (1878) [Caconda]; id. Orn. Angola, p. 400 (1881)"[Mossamede9, 

 Benguela, and Dande Bay] : Sharpens ed. Lagards B. S. Afr. p. 589 

 (1884); Soma, J. Sci. Lisb. xi. p. 167 (1886) 'Fazenda Mara- 

 vdha], xii. p. 102 (1887) Quissange], p. 228 (1888) [Quindumbo\ 

 (2) i. p. 116 (18■^9) [Catumbella' ; Biittiko/er, Notes Leyd. Mui. 

 xi. p. 76 (1889) [Upper Cunene].' 



Pternistes nudicollis, Gitrney's ed. Anderss. B. Damaraland, p. 244 

 (1872)[?Damaraknd[. 



Francolinus sclateri, Schaeck, M6m. Soc. Zool. Fr. iv. p. .330 (1891). 



I*temistes afer, Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 53. 



AclnJt male. Upper parts, wings, and tail resemble those of 

 P. nudicollis, but the lores and superciliary stripes are pure white, 

 and the dark shaffr-streaks on the feathers of the back are much 

 narrower, scarcely extending beyond the shafts themselves. Ear- 

 coverts brown edged with white, feathers on the sides of the face 

 and throat pure white, those of the neck black, marg:ined on either 

 side with white. Upper chest grey, finely dotted towards the ex- 

 tremity with black, and with black brown-edged shaft-stripes ; rest 

 of the underparts white, with a wide black band down the centre of 

 each feather. Tarsi with two pairs of spurs, the lower long and 

 sharp, the upper short and blunt. Iris brown. Naked skin round 

 the eye and on the chin and throat red. Bill, legs, and feet red. 

 Total length 14 inches, wing 7-1, tail 3-1, tarsus 2'2. 



Adult ftiwih. Differs from the male in having the whole chest 

 brownish grey with blackish shaft-stripes ; the upper surface with 

 wider dark shaft-strii>es : a smaller patch of white on the lores and 

 the tarsi without spurs. Total length 12-5 inches, wing 6-5, 

 tail 2-8, tarsus 1-9. 



Immature lirdi have the outer secondaries and long scapulars 

 barred and blotched with black and reddish buflF; the outer webs of 

 the inner secondaries are reddish buff thickly freckled with black ; 



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