Birds from British East Africa and Uganda. 17 



Naivaslia, and one young female from soutlieru Sotik, all yf 

 which fall into this subspecies. 



Fischer & Reichenow's plate of the male^ if carefully 

 compared with birds from British East Africa and German 

 East Africa, is found to agree more with the birds from 

 the former country and might have been taken from the 

 specimen collected by Lord Delamere at the Morendat 

 Uiver, Naivasha Dist., on December 27, 1899. 



The female now figured (Plate II.) is a specimen in the 

 British Museum collected by Lord Delamere^ at the same 

 place and on the same date. 



On the average, the male is rather darker above (less 

 rufous), and more white (less buff) than males of either 

 F. h. hildebrandti or F. h. johnstoni ; also there is some 

 difference in the spotting and streaking of the under parts, 

 especially of the flank feathers. 



It is, however, with the female that the most striking 

 differences occur, and as I cannot find any description of it, 

 I give the following : — 



Adult female of i^. h.aliumi. Above similar to adult male ; 

 considerably greyer on the top of the head and nape than 

 the females of F. h. hildebrandti or F. h. johnstoni. Sides 

 of the head and throat whiter and greyer (much less huffy), 

 and the former more distinctly streaked than females of the 

 other two races. Below much paler, witli the neck, chest 

 and flanks very distinctly spotted and mottled with blackish, 

 in contradistinction to the uniform cinnamon-brown of the 

 females of the other two races. 



There are, therefore, three distinct and well marked races 

 of this Francolin as follows : — 



F. II. HILDEBRANDTI Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 206, pi. iv. (of 

 an adult female showing the clear neck and chest and light 

 cheeks) : Zanzibar, Mombasa and further inland. Zanzibar 

 apparently an incorrect locality. 



Range. German East Africa. Specimens in the Museum 

 collection from Kilimanjaro and Usari River. 



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