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quite a good subspecies and extends northwards to at least 

 Fashoda on the Nile. 



From Kordofan westwards to Lake Chad, the true F. c. 

 clappertoni Childr. (in Denh. & Clapp. Trav. App. 1826, 

 p. 198 : Bornu, near Lake Chad), takes its place. 



As might be supposed, where these subspecies overlap 

 specimens bear the characters of both, and this is well 

 exemplified in a bird from Goz-abu-Gumar, on the White 

 Nile, about a third of the way between Kaka and Khartoum, 

 which has the back of F. c. clappertoni and the underparts of 

 F. c. henglini. 



In the Misc. Coll. Smiths. Inst. Washington, vol. 56. 

 no. 20, 1911, p. 3, Mearns has described a new Francolin 

 under the name Francolinus grisescens, and gives the type 

 locality as Lokko Zegga, Uganda, It is allied to F. clapper- 

 toni, but I am quite unable to place it from the description, 

 and should not be surprised to learn that it is similar to F. c. 

 gedgei. 



[ cJ ? . Irides brown, bare skin red ; bill black, reddish 

 at base (one male is also very red on the nostrils) ; legs 

 and toes red, darker in front. Not abundant, only small 

 coveys seen in millet fields.] 



7. Francolinus icterorhynchus emini. Emin's Francolin. 



Francolinus icterorhynchus enmii Neumann, Orn. Monatsb. 

 1907, p. 198 : West of Albert Nyanza. 



a. S ad. Falabek, 2800 ft. Feb. 23. 



In slight moult. 



Total length in flesh : 15^ inches. Wing : 178 ram. 



Males in the Museum collection from Tingasi, near the 

 Welle River, measure 174 and 176 mm. in the wing, others 

 from LTganda have the wing 175-187 mm., and one from 

 Ruwenzori is 180 mm. Two females from Uganda have the 

 wing 180 and 183 mm. 



Four specimens of the true F. i. icterorhynchus Heugl. 

 (J. f.O. 1863, p. 275 : Bongo, Bahr el Ghazal), in the Boyd 

 Alexander collection, have the wing in two males 162 and 

 166, and in two females 159 and 167 mm. 



