136 ALLEN S NATURALISTS LIBRARY. 



A. Feathers of the back and scapulars with dark-brow7i or 

 black shaft-stripes. 



I. THE CAPE BARE-THROATED FRANCOLIN. PTERNISTES 

 NUDICOLLIS. 



Tetrao midicollis, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 11, No. 180 (1783). 



Pternistes fiudicollis, Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 589 



(1884); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 174 



(1893). 

 Francolijiiis jmdicollis, Auctorum, passim. 



Adult Male. — General colour above brown; feathers of fteck 

 black, margined on the sides with greyish-white ; mantle grey, 

 with very wide black shaft-stripes ; breast and under-parts black, 

 with white shaft-stripes ; feathers from the gape to the cheek 

 black (freckled with white m females and young) ; naked skin 

 round eye and on throat crimson ; feet similarly coloured and 

 with a ])air of sharp spurs. Total length, 15*5 inches; wing, 

 7-9; tail, 37; tarsus, 2-4. 



Adixlt Female. — Differs chiefly from the male in having the 

 sides of the feathers of the lower breast and belly rufous-brown 

 instead of black. Smaller; wing, 7*3 inches. No spurs. 



Range. — South Africa ; Transvaal and Cape Colony. 

 This species is met with in the wooded districts, and is 

 common in many of the maritime parts of its range. 



Eggs. — Rather round in shape ; pinkish crearn-colour, finely 

 speckled all over with chalky-white. Measurements, 175 by 

 i'5 inch. 



II. Humboldt's bare-throated francolin. pternistes 



HUMBOLDTl. 



Francolinus humboldti, Peters, MB. Akad. Berl. 1854, p. 134. 



Pternistes humboldti, Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 589 

 (1884); Ogilvie-Grant, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6), vii. p. 145 

 {1891); id. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 176 (1893). 



