18 Mr. C. H. B. Grant on a Collection of 



. F. H. ALTUMi Fisch. & Rchw. 

 Range. British East Africa. 



F. H. jOHNSTONi Shelley, Ibis, 1894, p. 24 : Milanji Hills. 

 Range. Nyasaland. Specimens in the British Museum 

 collection from Nyasaland. 



9. Francolinus schuetti schuetti. Schuett's Francolin. 



Francolinus schuetti Cabanis, J. f. O. 1881, p. 351: 

 Lunda, borders of Angola, and the Belgian Congo. 



a. S ad. Amala River, 5300 ft. Oct. 24. 



Slightly worn and moulting. 



Total length in flesh : 141 j inches. Wing : 176 ram. 



[Bill red; legs and toes red. Shot in dense bush near 

 water.] 



In naming this bird I have found it necessa,ry to examine 

 the whole of the specimens in the National Collection, and 

 I cannot see more than two races of this Francolin, and 

 therefore do not agree with Mearns (Misc. Coll. Smiths. 

 Inst. Washington, vol, 56, uos. 14 & 20, 1911) that there are 

 five races. 



Besides the specimen above enumerated, there are in the 

 Museum collection two birds from Chaya, Belgian Congo, four 

 from Ruwenzori, and nine from Uganda ; all of which fall in 

 together and are indistinguishable both in size and colour. 



Wing in S 181-168mm. ; ? 163-156mm. 



Unfortunately I have not been able to examine birds 

 actually from Lunda, but taking the two specimens from 

 Belgian Congo as typical (and they agree well with the 

 coloured plate, J. f. O. 1881, pi, ii.), there should be one 

 race (F. s. schuetti) from the Congo basin across Uganda 

 to the loest of the Rift Valley and down the east side of 

 Lake Victoria. 



If, however, Lunda specimens should prove to be different, 

 which I doubt, then F. s. zappeyi Mearns would range from 

 the Congo divide to the Rift Valley. 



Of the other race, the Museum possesses two from Mt. 

 Kenia, two from Kikuju, one from Nairobi, two from B. E, A. 

 probably the Athi River (Drakc-Biockman), and seven from 



