7. PTERNI8TE8. 179 



In young specimens the shaft-strealcs of the back and upper parts 

 are wider and blacker, and the feathers, especially the scapulars, 

 are barred with buff. The chin and throat are thinly covered with 

 whitish feathers. Most of the underparts are white, widely barred 

 with blackish brown, shading into brownish buiF towards the margins, 

 others are partially or entirely finely mottled with black as in the 

 adult. Both webs of the quills are mottled with rufous buff. 



Nab. West Africa : Congo and Loango Coast, ranging to Mar- 

 ungu, south-west of Lake Tanganyika. 



a, h. 2 ad. et Landana {Dr. A. Lucan). Shelley Coll. 



imni. sk. 

 c-h. S $ iid. et Landana, March, Sept. M. L. Petit [G.]. 



imm. sk. 

 L $ ad. sk. Congo (/. Cranch). Congo Kxpedition. 



(Type of the apecies.) 



5. Ptemistes boehmi. 



Francolinus cranchii, Sclat. (nee Leach), P. Z. S. 18(34, p. 113 



[Usui] ; Finsch ^- Ilartl. Vog. Ost-Afr. p. 579, pi. ix. (1870) ; Heu(/l. 



Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 902 (1873) [Usui]; Bohm, J. f. O. 1832, 



p. 194 [Ugalia River]; Schahw, J. f. O. 1883, p. 34l"rKakomal; 



Matschie, J.f. O. 1887, p. 139 [Karema]. 

 Ptemistes biihmi, Heich. J.f. O. 188o, p. 465 [Gonda], 1887, p. 52 



[Soboro, Ugogo]; Matschie, J.f. O. 1887, pp. 135,^156; Beick. 



J. f. O. 1891, p. 143 [Uuyamuesi, Unyanyembe]; Grant, Ibis, 



1892, p. 54. 

 Francolinus nibricoUis, Bohm, J.f. O. 1885, pp. .39, 71 [Gonda]. 

 Francolinus boehmi, Schaeck, Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. iv. p. 324 (1891). 



Adidt male and female. Upper parts as in F, cranchi ; upper breast- 

 feathors white with black shaft-stripes and vermiculated with black, 

 those of the belly white with black shatt-stripes and wide reddish- 

 brown margins, with small submarginal black bands. Xakcd skin 

 round the eye red, on the chin and throat yellow. Bill and feet 

 red ; iris brown. Wing G-8-7"2 inches, taU 3, tarsus '2-2. 



Hah. Central East Africa : cast of Lake Tanganyika ; Usui, 

 Victoria Nyanza ; Unyamuesi, Unyanyembe and Ugogo. 



6. Ptemistes swainsoni. 



Perdix swainsoni. Smith, Hep. Exp. Cent. Afr. p. 54 (1836). [Rivers 



S. of Kurrichaine]. 

 Fraucolinus swainsoni. Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr. pi. 12 (1838) ; Grat/ 



Gen. B. iii. p. 506 (1846) ; Strickl. S,- Sclat. in Jard. Contr. Or'n[ 



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and North Damaraland] ; Ai/res, Ifm, 1869, p. 297 [Transvaal! • 

 Grai/, Haud-L B. ii. p. 2(>4, lio. 9651 (1870) : Buckieif, Ihi.'>, 1874,' 

 p. 386 [Pretoria to Matabele] ; 7?nr;7/^/, Ibis, 1876, p. 209 [Lyden- 

 burg Dist.] ; Ai/res, Ibis, 1877, p. 346 [ VVaterberg Dist., Transvaal] ; 



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