13S Allen's naturalist's library. 



IV. cranch's bare-throated francolin. pternistes 



CRANCHI. 



Perdix cranchii, Leach, in Tuckey's Narrat. Explor. River 



Zaire, App. p. 408 (18 18). 

 Pternistes cranchii^ Wagler; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 



xxii. p. 178 (1893). 

 Perdix punctidata, J. E. Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. ii. pi. 43, fig. 3 



(1833-4). 

 Pternistes luaini, Bocage, J. Sc. Lisb. vii, p. 68 (1879). 



Adult Male. — General colour above umber-brown, finely 

 mottled with black ; neck, mantle, chest, and under-parts finely 

 mottled with black and white, the feathers of the breast and 

 belly being ividely margined on both webs with chest?iut. A pair 

 of sharp spurs. Naked skin of throat, bill, and feet crimson- 

 red. Total length, 14 inches; wing, 7*3; tail, 3 "i ; tarsus, 2*2. 



Adult Female. — Differs somewhat from the male, having the 

 feathers of the back of the neck broivn, edged with white, and 

 the mantle brown like the back. No spurs. Smaller ; wing, 6-8 

 inches. 



Range. — West Africa ; Congo and Loango Coast, and ex- 

 tending to the Marunga Country, south-west of Lake Tan 

 ganyika. 



v. BOEHM's BARE-THROATED FRANCOLIN. PTERNISTES 

 BOFHMI. 



Francoli/iKS cranchii, Finsch & Hartl. {nee Leach), Vog. Ost- 



Afr. p. 579, pi. ix. (1870). 

 Pternistes bbhmi, Reich. J. f. O. 1885, p. 465 ; Ogilvie-Grant, 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 179 (1893). 

 Adult Male and Female — Like P. cranchi, but the feathers of the 

 breast and belly have black shaft-stripes. 



Range.— Central East Africa, east of Lake Tanganyika; Usui, 

 Victoria Nyanza, Unyamuesi, Unyanyembe, and Ugogo. 



This species, which represents P. cranchi in East Africa, was 



