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



] 2. Coturnix coturnix africana. The Afiican Quail. 



Coturnix vulgaris africana Temm. & Sclil. F. Jap. 1850, 

 p. 103 : " La pointe australe d'Afrique.^^ 



a. ? ad. Kikuyu. Scot. 22. 



In clean dress and very little worn. 



Total length in flesh : 8 inches. Wing : 109 mm. 



[Irides light brown; bill brownish fawn; legs and toes 

 flesh-colour. Very common.] 



13. Coturnix delegorguei. Delegorgue's Quail. 

 Coturnix delegorguei Deleg. Vog. Afr. Austr. ii. 1847j 



p. 615 : Oury River, i. e. Upper Limpopo, Transvaal. 



a, h. S ? f'fl- Amala River, 5500 ft. Oct. 11. 



Both are rather worn and faded. 



Total length in flesh : J & V 7 inches. Wing : J 93 ram.; 

 ? 98 mm. 



[Irides brown ; bill bluish horn, lighter in female ; legs 

 and toes flesh-colour. Probably more plentiful than it 

 appears to be.] 



14. Ptilopachus fuscus florentiae. East African Grey 

 Francolin. 



Ptilopachgs florentia O.-Grant, Bull. B. O. C. vol. x. 1900, 

 p. cvii : Gessema Laikipia, B.E.A. 



a. S ad. Mt. Maroto, 6000 ft. Jan. 27. 



b^cL S ? ad. Nakwai Hills, 3800 ft. Feb. 6. 



All are in good plumage and agree perfectly with the 

 type. 



The three males have the breast-patch distinctly more 

 buffy (richer) than in the female, in which it is more 

 stone-colour. 



Total length in flesh: <^ 11|— 11 inches ; ? 11 3 inches. 

 Wing: <S 122-129 mm. ; ? 127 ram. 



I do not 'think that P. f. keniensis Alearus (Misc. 

 Coll. Smiths. Inst. Washington, vol. 56, no. 20, 1911 : 

 Mt. Kenia) can stand as a subspecies, as the dift'erences 

 given by Mearns between this race and P. f. florentia are 

 the characters of the latter, especially the ''nape and mantle 



