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VII. HUBBARD'S FRANCOLIN. FRANCOLINUS HUBBARDI. 



Francolinus hubbardt, Grant, Bull. B.O.Club, iv. p. xxvii. (1895). 



Adult Male and Female. — Similar to F. coqui, but having the 

 entire breast uniform buff, without any black bars. Total 

 length, 10 inches ; wing, 5-6. 



Range. — Nas^a district, Victoria Nyanza. 



VIII. SCHLEGEL'S FRANCOLIN. FRANCOLINUS SCHLEGELL 



Francolinus schlegelii, Heugl. J. f. O. 1863, p. 275; id. Oin. 

 N. O.-Afr. ii. p. 898, pi. xxx. (1873) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. 

 B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 145 (1893). 

 ? Francolinus buckleyi, Shelley MS.; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1892, 

 p. 41. 



Adult Male.— Differs from the male of i^ <r<7^^^/ chiefly in having 

 the shoulders, wing-coverts, and outer webs of the secondary 

 flight-feathers uniform light red. 



Two female specimens {F. buckleyi) from Accra, now in the 

 British Museum, which originally formed part of the Shelley 

 collection, may prove to be the females of this species. They 

 differ from the female of F. coqui in having the black stripes 

 over the eye and round the throat nearly obsolete, the basal part 

 of the inner primary and secondary flight-feathers chestnut, and 

 the upper-parts greyer. 



Eange. — Bongo, Equatorial Africa, and perhaps extending to 

 Accra on the West Coast. 



b. In the following species the breast and flanks are ?tot whitish 

 buff, uniformly barred with black. 



IX. THE RING-NECKED FRANCOLIN. FRANCOLINUS 

 STREPTOPHORUS. 



Francolinus streptophorus^ Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1891, p. 126, 

 id. Cat. B. BrTt. Mus. xxii. p. 145, pi. i (1893). 

 Adult Male. — General colour above brown, below buff; the 

 sides of the head mostly bright chestnut; eyebrow stripe, 



