THE KRANCOMNS. I33 



Francolinus petiti, Bocage, J. Sc. l.isb. vii. p. 6tS (1879). 

 Ftancolinus modestus, Cabanis, J. f. O. 1889, p. 89. 



Adult Male and Female. — Feathers of back of neck and mantle 

 reddish-broivn^ blotcJied with black and edged with white ; rest of 

 the upper-parts brown, with darker centres, and finely mottled 

 with black ; under-parts brownish-buff, with the shaft of the 

 feathers only dark. 



Male with one or two pairs of spurs, the lower one long and 

 sharp. Total length, 13-5 inches; wing, 7-3; tail, 3-5; tarsus, 2-1. 



Female. — Somewhat smaller; wing, 6'6 inches. No spurs. 



Range. — West Africa ; Loango Coast and Gaboon. 



XLi. schuett's fr.\ncolin. francolinus s huetti. 



Fraiicolinus schuetti, Cabanis, J. f. O. 1880, p. 351, i88i, pi. 

 ii. ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 170 (1893). 

 Adult Male. — Very similar to F. sqiiainatus, but the feathers 

 of the neck and mantle are more widely margined, and with 

 grey ; the feathers of the middle of the breast and belly are 

 dull grey round the margins, shading into brown towards the 

 shaft. Total length, 13 inches; wing, 6*9; tail, 3-4; tarsus, 



2-1. 



Adult Female. — Differs slightly from the male in having the 

 feathers of the middle of the breast and belly margined with 

 pale buff. Somewhat smaller; wing, d'd inches. 



Range. — West Africa, from Lunda, Angola; East Africa, 

 Lake Naivasha, Kilimanjaro district, 5,oco to 6,000 feet, 

 Chaga district, and Pangani River. 



XLii. the ahanta francolin. francolinus ahaniensis. 



Francolinus ahantensis, Temm. Bijdr. tot de Dierk. i. p. 49, 

 pi. 14 (1854); Biittikofer, Notes Leyd. Mus. vii. p. 231 

 (1885); xi. p. 126 (1889); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xxii. p. 171 (1893). 



