178 PHASIANIDJE. 



the loral patcli more black than white ; and some of the feathers of 

 the cheek with black shaft-stripes. 



Hah. Western South Africa : Mossamedes, Benguela, Angola. 



a. cT imm. sk. River Quauza. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Quissange, Nov. {Anchieta). Lisbon Museum [P.]. 



c. (S ad. sk. Barra do Dande, March Lisbon Museum [P.]. 



(AncMeta). 



d. c? ad. St. Maeonjo, Benguela. Lisbon Museum [P.]. 

 e-ff. d ad. ; $ imm. Huilla, Feb., March {An- Shelley Coll. 



sk. chieta). 



4. Pternistes cranchi. 



Perdix cranchii, Leach, in Tuckey's Narrat. Eaplor. River Zaire, 

 App. p. 408 (1818) [Congo R.]. 



Francolinus cranchii, Sfeph. in Shawns Gen. Zool. xi. p. 336 (1819) ; 

 Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 506 (1846) ; id. List Gallince Brit. Mus. p. 49 

 (1867); id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 264, no. 9651 (1870); Schalow, 

 J.f. O. 1887, p. 229 [Marungu] ; Schaeck, Mim. Soc. Zool. Fr. iv. 

 p. 331 (1891). 



Pternistes cranchii, Wagl. Isis, 1832, p. 1229 ; Graij, List Gall. B. 

 iii. p. 32 (1844); Hartl. J.f. O. 1854, p. 210; id. Orn. W.- 

 Afr. p. 202 (1857) ; Sharpe ^ Bouv. Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. i. p. 52 

 (1876) [Chinchouxo) ; Matschie, J.f. O. 1887, p. 147 [Marungu]; 

 Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 54. 



Perdix punctulata, Gray, III. Ind. Zool. ii. pi. 43. fig. 3 (1833-4). 



Arboricola punctulata, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 160. 



Pternistes lucani, Bocage, J. Sc. Lish. vii. p. 68 (1879) [Landana] ; 

 Beich. ^ Schalow, J.f. O. 1879, p. 423; Bocage, Orn. Angola, 

 p. 402 (1881) [Loango Coast]. 



Francohnus lucani, Schaeck, Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. iv. p. 326 (1891). 



Adult male. Lores black. Superciliary stripes and feathers on 

 the sides of the face (except the ear-coverts, which are brown) 

 black, narrowly margined with white. Top of the head brown. 

 Feathers of the neck, mantle, chest, and sides finely mottled with 

 black and white ; rest of the upper parts umber-brown, finely 

 mottled and dotted with black, and with darker brown shaft- 

 stripes. Quills brown, the outer webs of the primaries mottled 

 with buff, those of the secondaries with black. Breast and belly 

 like the chest, but each feather is widely margined on both webs 

 with chestnut. Vent and under tail-coverts brownish buff mottled 

 with black. Tail brown, faintly dotted with black. Tarsi armed 

 with a pair of sharp spurs. Iris brown, naked skin round the eye 

 and on the chin and throat crimson-red ; bill and legs the same. 

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



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

 back of the neck brown edged with white, and with dark shaft- 

 stripes, those of the mantle like the back ; the feathers of the 

 breast and belly much less conspicuously edged with chestnut, and 

 the tarsi without spurs. Total length 12 inches, wing 6-8, tail 3, 

 tarsus 1'9. 



