7. PTERNI8TES. 181 



-wibh broad rufous-brown margins and black shaft-streaks. Middle 

 of the belly greyish white ; the small feathers on the hinder sides 

 of the head black, margined with white on the sides. Neck-feathers 

 with black and rufous-brown edges on either side of the white 

 middle. The feathers of the upper back and wing-coverts grey in 

 the middle, with blackish-brown shafts and transversely barred ; 

 rump and tail-feathers grey, with thicker darker cross-bars. Wings 

 dark brown, with clearer rust-red cross-bars. Iris brown ; naked 

 skin round the eye orange-red, on the throat orange-yellow. Upper 

 mandible reddish brown, lower reddish. Legs dark brown. Total 

 length 15-() inches, wing S'4, tail 3-2, tarsus 2-8. 



Hob. Equatorial Africa ; Wembaere Steppes, Ussambiro, and 

 Unyoro. 



•a. Ad., head and Between Victoria and Albert Canon Tristram 



neck only. Nyanza. [P.l. 



8. Pternistes leucoscepus. (Plate VIII.) 



Perdix rubricollis, Crctzschm. (nee Gmel.), Riipp. Atl. y. 44, pi. 30 



(1826) (fig. resembles P. infmcatus) ; Riippell, N. TVirhelth. p. 11 



(18.35) [Massouah]. 

 Pternistes rubricoUis, Waf/l. Isis, 18S-2, p. 1229. 

 Pternistes rubricollis, (rz-ay. Lint Gall. B. iii. p. 32 (1844); Heuglin, 



Ibis, 18r,9, p. 343 [Tadjura] ; Hew/l. J. f. O. 1862, p. 411; Blanf. 



Geol. ^- Zool. Abyss, p. 426 (1870) [Komayli]. 

 Francolinus rubricollis, Gmij, Gen. B. iii. p. o06 (1846) [part.!; 



Finsch, Trans. Zool. Soc. vii. p. 292 (1870) [Sahati, Rairo]; 



Finsch Sf Ilartl. Viifj. Ost-Afr. p. .')76 (1870) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 264, no. 9649 (1870) ; Anfin. Mem. Soc. Geoyr. Ital. i. p. 183 



(1878) ; Svlater, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 389 [Berberah] ; Salmd. Ann. 



Mm. Civ. Genov. xxi. p. 272 (1884) [Slioa] ; Schaeck, Mem. Soc. 



Zool. Fr. iv. p. 319 (1891). 

 Pternistes asiatica, Licht. Nomend. Av. p. 84 (1854). 

 Francolinus leucoscepus, Gray, List Gallince Brit. Mm. p. 48 (1867) ; 



Bocaqc, J. Sci. Lisb. iii. p. 178 (1871) ; Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. 



p. 899 (1873) ; Antin. Sf Saload. Cat. Ucc. p. 130 (1873); Bagazd, 



Boll. Soc. Geogr. Ital. 1887, p. 348. 

 Pternistes leucoscepus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. xxvi. p. 308 



(1888) [R. llawasch]; Gramf, Ibis, 1892, p. 55. 

 Francolinus (Pternistes) rubricollis, Hartert, Kat. Mtis. Senckenb. 



p. 194 (1891). 



Adult male and female. Lores whitish, edged and sometimes tipped 

 •with brown ; feathers of superciliary stripe white, with brown shaft- 

 etripes. Top of the head darkish brown, most of the feathers with 

 whitish-buff shafts. Back and sides of the neck brown, each 

 feather margined with white, and with a reddish-buff shaft-stripe 

 shading into buff at the extremity ; rest of the upper parts bro-vvn, 

 shading into grey towards the margins, and eacli with a mode 

 ratcly wide white shaft-stripo, widest at the extremity ; the outer 

 6cai)idars, rump, and ujipcr tail-coverts are also finely vermiculated 

 with black and bull'. Primaries, primary-coverts, and secondaries 

 brown, the outer primaries with the outer web margined with buff 



