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At nightfall small flocks arrive at the water-holes in quick 

 succession, and for about 20 minutes after sunset the air is 

 filled with their soft guttural call-note, which, once heard, 

 is never forgotten, and seems to be common to all the species 

 of Sand-grouse I have met with. 



119. Pternistes infuscatus Cab.; Salvad. Mem. R. 

 Accad. Sci. Torino, (2) xHv. p. 562. 



No. 122. S' Sogsoda, Feb. 2, 1897. Iris brown. 

 No. 285. ? . The Gooban, Mar. 22, „ 



120. Francolinus kirki Hartl. ; Grant, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xxii. p. 149 (1893). 



No. 157. ? . Sogsoda, Feb. 19, 1897. 

 No. 185. c? • jj ), „ Ii'is brown. 



This Francolin has been determined for me by Mr. Ogilvie 

 Grant. 



121. Francolinus lorti Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 

 vi. p. xlvii. (Plate X.) 



No. 213. S' Wagga Mountain, 9000 feet. 



This Francolin is most nearly allied to F. gidturalis, with 

 the dotted line of spots skirting the throat more continuous 

 and not separate, so that they form a line. It approaches 

 F. uluensis in having a white patch on the sides of the neck 

 spotted with black. The chestnut patches on the feathers 

 of the fore-neck and chest are much deeper in colour, and 

 the black markings on the rest of the underparts are very 

 narrow and linear or arrow-shaped. The flanks are very 

 scantily marked with the same deep chestnut-brown as the 

 chest. The rufous on the quill-lining is much less and is 

 almost confined to the basal half, resembling F. uluensis. 



Total length 12*5 inches, culmen 1, wing 6'6, tail 4'75, 

 tarsus 1"75. 



XXXVI. — Proceedings at the Anniversary Meeting of the 



British Ornithologists' Union, 1898. 

 The Annual General Meeting of the British Ornithologists' 

 Union was held at the rooms of the Zoological Society of 



