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VII. REICHENOW'S BARE-THROATED FRANCOLIN. PTERNISTES 

 RUFOPICTUS. 



Pternistes rufopidus, Reichenow, J. f. O. 1887, p. 52 ; Ogilvie- 

 Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 180 (1893). 



Adult Male. — Feathers of the neck white^ with black and rufous- 

 brown j?iargins. General colour above grey, with dark cross- 

 bars ; below white, with black shaft-streaks and broad rufous- 

 brown margins ; naked skin on the throat orange-yellow ; bill 

 reddish-brown ; feet and toes dark brown. Total length, 15-6 

 inches; wing, 8*4; tail, 3-2; tarsus, 2'8. 



Range.^Equatorial Africa ; Wembaere Steppes, Ussambiro, 

 and Unyoro, Nassa district, Victoria Nyanza. 



Very few examples of this remarkably fine Bare-throated 

 Francolin have as yet been obtained, and I have only recently 

 been able to examine perfect specimens, though I had seen the 

 heads and necks of two which were brought from Unyoro. 

 The British Museum, however, has recently acquired three 

 specimens from Nassa, presented by the Rev. G. Hubbard. 



B. Feathers of the back and scapulars with white shaft- 

 stripes. 



VIII. gray's BARE-THROATED FRANCOLIN. PTERNISTES 

 LEUCOSCEPUS. 



Perdix rubricollis, Cretzschm. {?iec Gmel.), Riipp. Atl. p. 44, pi. 



30(1826). 

 Francolinus leucoscepus, Gray, List Galhnc\3 Brit. Mus. p. 48 



(1867). 

 Pternistes rubricollis, Blanf. Geol. and Zool. Abyss, p. 426 



(1870). 

 Pternistes leucoscepus, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Bnt. Mus. xxu. p. 

 181, pi. viii. fig. I (1893). 

 Adult Male and Female.— General colour above brown ; feathers 

 of the chest and breast ivhite, ivith dull broivn margins ; those 



