21. PTiLorAcnys. 555 



and under tail-coverts. Total length 4-S inches, -wing 2-7, tail -9, 

 tarsus "7. 



Hah. New Britain, New Ireland, Duke of York Group. 



a. i5 ad. sk. New Britain (Lieut. liichards). Tweeddale Coll. 



h. j imm. sk. New Britain, June (Kleinschmidt). Godetfroy Mus. 



3. Excalfactoria adansoni.' 



Coturnix adan?onii, 7>;v. lii'c. et Mcig. de Zool. 18-51, p. .51-5 



[Gaboon]; Haiti. Si/st. Orn. W.-A/r. p. 204 (1857); lieicA. 



J. f. O. 1874, p. 383, 1875, p. 48 [Gold Coast, Cameroons]; 



iSfuirpe's ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. (306 (1884) [Kingwilliams- 



town] ; Reich. J.f. O. 1890, p. 109 [Cameroons]. 

 Excalfactoria adan.sonii, Bonap. C. B. xlii. p. 881 (1856) ; Grant, 



Ann. Mag. N. H. (6) ix. p. 167 (1892). 

 Coturnix (Excalfactoria) adansonii, Gray, List Gallince Brit. Mus. 



p. 63 (1867) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 269 (1870). 

 Coturnix emini, Beich. Alh/. deut.sc7i. orn. Ges. Berlin, Bericht x. 



(7tb Dec, 1891) p. 3; id. J.f. 0. 1892, p. 18, pi. 1. fig. 3 (d) 



[Bukoba, Victoria Nyanza]. 



Adult male. Differs from the male of E. cJiincnsis in having the 

 whole of the upper parts blackish brown washed with slate, except 

 the wing-coverts, scapulars, upper tail-coverts, sides, and flanks, 

 which are bright chestnut, especially the outer wing-coverts, with a 

 slate-grey shaft-stripe down each feather ; the middle of the back 

 blotched with black. (In very old specimens these marks disappear.) 

 The white patch on the fore part of the neck larger and extending 

 further down on the chest ; and the rest of the underparts very 

 dark slate-grey. Total length 5-2 inches, wing 2-9-3, tail 1-1, 

 tarsus '8. 



Adult female. Very similar to the female of the subspecies E. 

 lineata, but the wing-coverts and scapulars are more distinctly 

 barred with black. The average wing-measurement is 3'l-3'2. 



Hab. Africa, south of about 5° north latitude. 



a-ff. S 2 ad. et Accra, July (J. Stnitit). Shelley Coll. 



imm. sk. 



h-l. d 2 ad. et Gaboon. Shelley Coll. 



imm. sk. 



m. 2 ad- sk. Natal (Gordye)." Shelley Coll. 



n, 0. cJ ad. sk. Pinetown, March (T. L. Ayres). Sharpe Coll. 



21. PTILOPACHYS. 



Type. 



Ptilopnchiis, Sicaint. Class. B. ii. p. 344 (1837) P. fuscus. 



PetrogiiUiis, /. E. Gray, Ma., fide Jard. Sf Selb. III. Orv. 



(n. s.) text to pi. x%-i. (1837) P. fuscus. 



Ptilophachys, iSY/jcA/. Ann. Mag. X. H. vii. p. 37 (1841) . . P. fuscus. 



Soxes similar. 



Tail composed of 14 feathers, rather long and rounded, and more 

 than i the length of the wing. 



