from Somaliland and Southern Abyssinia. 335 



a. c? • Kassiin river, Abyssinia, 18 January, 1899. 

 (No. 230.) 



Iris brown ; bill black ; legs dull red. 

 [Common in the lower valleys. — L.] 



297. Fkancolinus castaxeicollis. 



Francolinus castaneicollis Salvad. ; Grant, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xxii. p. 153 (1893) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 520. 



a. ? ad. Lake Chercher, Abyssinia, 11 January, 1899. 

 (No. 160.) 



Iris brown ; bill reddish brown; legs dull red. 



This female agrees well with my description and figure taken 

 from the type specimen also obtained at Lake Chercher, but 

 the measurements are decidedly larger. Wing 7'4 inches, 

 tail 4"1, tarsus 1'9. The measurements of the type, also a 

 female, are : — wing 6*6 inches, tail 3*6, tarsus 1*7. Mr. E. 

 Lort Phillips has procured several immature examples of this 

 Francolin in the Goolis Mountains, in Northern Somaliland. 



The species is new to the British Museum Collection. 



[Fairly common in Central Abyssinia. — L.] 



298. Francolinus sharpii. 



Francolinus sharpii Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 164 

 (1893). 



a. $ . Arriro, Abyssinia, 18 February, 1899. (No. 338.) 



Iris brown ; cere red ; bill black ; legs red. 



[This female Francolin was laying eggs, though still with 

 the covey.] 



299. Francolinus harw^oodi. (Plate VI.) 

 Francolinus harwoodi Weld-Blundell & Lovat, Bull. 



B. O. C. vol. x. p. xxii (1899). 



a. S- Ahaia Fej, Abyssinia, 7 February, 1899. (No. 

 298.) [Tyjje of the species.'] 



This species is most nearly allied to F. natalensis Smith 

 and F. icterorhynchus Heugl. From the former it may be 

 distinguished by having the feathers of the occiput and back 

 of the neck black, narrowly margined with white, producing 

 a strongly scaled appearance ; the chest, upper breast, and 



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