256 PHASIAXID^, 



Tarsus slioiter than the middle toe and claw, and not armed with 

 a spur. 



Claws short and rounded. 



A naked space round the ej'e. 



Banrje. Africa : from Senegambia and the Gold Coast to Kordofan, 

 Abyssinia, and the Siik Countrj". 



1. Ptilopachys fuscus. 



Eufous-breasted Partridge, Lath. Gen. Hid. viii. p. 296 (1823). 

 Biift-breasted Partridge, Lath. Gen. Hist. viii. p. 296 (1823). 

 Calid Quail, Lath. Gen. Hist. viii. p. 317 (1823). 

 Perdix fusca, rieill. Tail. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 366 (1823) ; id. Gal. 



cles Ois. ii. p. 40, pi. ccxii. (1825) ; Jard. 4' Selb. Lll. Orn. (new 



series) pi. xvi. (1837). 

 Perdix ventralis, Valenc. Diet. Sci. Nat. xxxviii. p. 435 (1825) 



[Senegal] ; jRiipj}. A". Wirhelt., Voff. p. 11 (1835). 

 Petrogallus fuscus, J. E. Gray, MS., in Jard. >§• Selb. Lll. Orn. (new 



series) text to pi. xvi. (1837). 

 Ptilopacbus erytbrorbTnclius. Swains. B. of W. Afr. ii. p. 220 (1837) ; 



id. Class. i?."ii. p. 344 (1837). 

 Ptilopaclius fuscus, Gray, List of B. pt. iii. Gall. p. 31 (1844) ; id. 



Gen. B. iii. p. 505 (1846); Hartl. Syst. Om. W.-Afr. p. 203 (1857) j 



id. J.f. O. 1861, p. 267 [Bissao]. 

 Ptilopacbus ventralis, Bi'ipp. Vog. N.O.-Afr. p. 105 (1845) 



[Kordofan and West Abyssinia] ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 504 (1846) ; 



id. List Galliwe Brit. Mus. p. 45 (1867) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 263 



(1870) ; Shelley ^- Buckley, Ibis, 1872, p. 292 [Accra]. 

 Ptilopachys ventraHs, Henyl. Orn.\ N.O.-Afr. iii. p. 879 (1873); 



Sliarpe, Ibis, 1892, p. 553 [Ngobota, Siik Country]. 



Adult male and female. Top of the head brown, shading into 

 sienna on chest and mantle, each feather with a dark band down the 

 shaft ; those of the head are also margined with brownish white, 

 while those of the other parts hare a submarginal baud of whitish, 

 and are ii'regularly barred with brown towards the margins. 

 Eest of the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts duU brown, finely 

 vcrmiculated with whitish. Scapulars and lesser and median wing- 

 coverts the same, but more coarsely marked with white and inter- 

 mixed with sienna towards the middle. Primaries and secondaries 

 and their coverts brown, finely mottled on the outer and slightly on 

 the inner web with rufous. Superciliary stripes, cheeks, chin, 

 throat, and neck dark brown, margined with whitish. Middle 

 of the breast imiform buft' ; sides of the breast, sides and Hanks 

 chestnut, irregularly and transversely barred towards the margins 

 of the webs with dark brown and white. Thighs dark brown, 

 irregularly barred with white ; belly and under tail-coverts dark 

 brown, the latter fringed with dirty white. Tail dark brown, 

 faintly mottled, especially on the inner feathers, with rufous bufi". 



Mede. Total length ll"inches,''wing 5-2, tail 3-6, tarsus 1-2, 



Female. Total length 9-5 inches, wing 4-7, tail 3-1, tarsus 1-1. 



Huh. Same as that of the genus. 



