468 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Graiit on 



[I found the African Painted Sand-Grouse on the edge of 

 the scrub near the river. I never noticed it south of Renk 

 or north of Ed-Diiem.— R. M. H.] 



207. Francolinus gedgii. 



Fruncolinus gedgii Grant; Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. 

 p. 163 (1893). 



Francolinus clappertoni, Reich. Vog. Afr. i. p. 480 (1901) 

 [part., Lado, Emin']. 



a, b. S ^ ' 20 miles N. of Fashoda, 16th April. Nos. 

 365, 366. 



Iris hazel ; bill blackish horn-coloured, red at the base ; 

 bare skin surrounding eye red ; legs purplish brown in 

 front, red behind, paler in the female. 



[Only one party of Gedge^s Francolin was seen, near 

 Fashoda.— R. M. H.] 



The type of this species, an adult male, was obtained by 

 Mr. E. Gedge on the Elgon Plains in 1890. It was not 

 until last year that a female was shot by Capt. H. Bray at 

 the junction of the Sobat River with the White Nile, and 

 forwarded to the Museum. Lastly, Mr. Hawker secured a 

 fine adult pair in freshly-moulted plumage a little further 

 north. 



The three birds from Fashoda and the mouth of the Sobat 

 resemble one another and differ slightly from the type of 

 F. gedgii in having the general colour of the lower back and 

 rump greyish brown instead of dull olive-brown ; the white 

 margins to the feathers of the upper parts, which are 

 confined to the sides of the feathers in the type, are some- 

 times almost confluent round the tip in the White Nile 

 birds, which in this respect approach the allied F. clappertoni ; 

 the under-parts are nearly white, faintly tinged with buff 

 on the breast only. 



The differences are, hoAvever, very slight and may be 

 individual ; in any case, without more material it would be 

 unsafe to separate the birds. 



Fashoda is probably the northern limit of this species, its 

 place being taken in Kordofan by the allied F. clappertoni. 



I find that the two males procured by Dr. Ansorge in 



