thp: hare-throated francolins. 137 



Francolinus {Pternistes) leucoparceus^ Fischer and Reichenow, 

 J. f. O. 1S84, p. 263. 



AdiTlt Male. — Like P. niidicollis, but the feathers from the 

 gape to the cheek are white; the black shaft-stripes on the 

 feathers of the mantle narroiv, scarcely extending beyond the 

 shaft; and the breast and under-parts black (with a ivhite 

 stripe on either side of the shaft in younger males). Sides of 

 the neck black. Bill, feet, and naked skin round the eye and 

 on the throat blood-red. Total length, 14 inches; wing, 74 ; 

 tail, 3*5 ; tarsus, 2*4. 



Adult Female. — Differs chiefly in having the feathers from the 

 gape to the cheek black and white; the sides of the neck 

 white, with a wide black band down the middle ; and the under- 

 parts with traces here and there of white shaft-stripes. Smaller ; 

 wing, 7 inches. No spurs. 



Range. — East Africa, from the Tana River to the Zambesi. 



III. sclater's bare-throated francolin. pternistes afer. 



Tetrao afer, Miill. S. N. Suppl. p. 129 (1766). 



Tetrao rubricollis, Gmel. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 758 (1788): 



Fteniistes sclateri, Bocage, J. Sc. Lisb. i. p. 327, pi. vi. (1868). 



Pternistes rubricollis, Auctorum, passim. 



Pternistes afer, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 177 



(1893). 



Adult Male. — Like P. nudicollis, but the eyebrow-stripes and 

 feathers between the gape and cheek are pure ivhite ; breast 

 and under-parts ivhite, zvith a wide black band down the viiddle 

 of each feather. Feathers of upper-chest grey, finely dotted 

 towards the ext'emity with black. Total length, 14 inches; 

 wing, 7-1 ; tail, 3-1 ; tarsus, 2-2. 



Adult Female. — Differs chiefly in having the feathers of the 

 chest brownish-grey, with black shaft-stripes. Smaller; wing, 

 6*5 inches. No spurs. 



Range — South-western Africa ; Mossamedes, Benguela, An- 

 gola. 



