128 ALLKN's naturalist's LIBRAkY. 



Barboza du Bocage, it differs in having the upper-parts brown, 

 spotted with fulvous and black ; the inner webs of the primary 

 flight-feathers pale brow?i, 7?iottled with buff on the edges ; the 

 tail-feathers blackish^ barred and edged with white ; the breast 

 white, strongly striped with brownish-black. The types are an 

 i/// mature male and female, in the Lisbon Museum. 

 Range.— Western South Africa ; Mossamedes. 



XXXIII. heuglin's double-spurred francolin. 



FRANCOLINUS ICTERORHYNCHUS. 



Frajicolinus iderorhynchus, Heugl. J. f. O. 1863, p. 275 ; id. 

 1864, p. 27 ; id. Orn. N. O.-Afr. ii. p. 894, pi. 29, fig. 1 

 (1873); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 163 



(1893)- 



Adult Male and Female. — Allied to F. clapperfoni, but the upper- 

 parts are brown, finely mottled with black and buff, apparently 

 much the same as in F. hartlaubi ; the inner webs of the 

 primary flight-fealhers brown, barred with rufous-buff ; feathers 

 of the under-parts buff, strongly striped down the middle with 

 brownish-black, and often with a detached oval, or round black 

 spot at the end ; tail blackish-brown with irregular rufous-biff 

 bars. Male with two pairs of spurs on the feet ; female with 

 one or two pairs of blunt knobs. Total length, 13-5 inches ; 

 wing, 6-8; tail, 3*2 ; tarsus, 2-2. 



Range. — North Central Africa; Bongo, Djur, Kosanga, and 

 the country to the west of the Albert Nyanza. 



XXXIV. SHARPE'S FRANCOLIN. FRANCOLINUS SHARPII. 



Francolinus clappertoni, Des Murs {nee Children), in Lefebvre's 



Voy. en Abyss, p. 146, pi. xii. (1845-50). 

 Francolinus rueppellii, Gray, et auct. ; Blanf. Geol. and Zool. 



Abyss, p. 425 (1870). 

 Francolinus sharpii, Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 47 ; id. Cat. 



B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 164 (1893). 

 Adult Male and Female.— Allied to F. clappertoni and F. gedgii^ 



