212 On Birds from the Frontier of Uganda. 



Stephanibyx inornatus (Swains.). 



An adult male and female and an immature female were 

 procured at Mulema in May. These specimens make a very 

 welcome addition to the National Collection, which con- 

 tained only two West-African specimens in somewhat poor 

 condition. 



Francolinus MULEM2E Grant. 



Francolinus mulema Grant, Bull. B. O. C. xiv. p. 30 



(1903). 



Adult male and female. Most nearly allied to 7' 1 . levaillanti 

 (Valenc.) and F. kikuyuensis Grant. They resemble the 

 former in the colour and markings of the head and neck, the 

 chin and middle of the throat being pure white, but, as in 

 F. kikuyuensis, the mottled black and white stripes surround- 

 ing the crown are interrupted on the nape by the chestnut 

 collar and arc not continued down the back of the neck in 

 a nuchal band, and the chestnut white -shafted feathers are 

 confined to the chest, the breast and belly being buff, more 

 or less blotched, especially on the sides of the body, with 

 blackish-chestnut. 7". kikuyuetisis always has the entire chin 

 and throat suffused with buff. Total length 13 inches ; 

 wing G-2 ; tail 2*7 ; tarsus 2'1 ; bare portion of culmen 1*2. 



This fine Franeolin is perhaps the most interesting of 

 Doggett's discoveries. The types were procured at Mulema, 

 in Southern Uganda, at an elevation of about 5000 feet, 

 in the month of March. Other specimens, including an 

 immature bird, were collected in the same locality in 

 March, April, and June, and an adult male was procured 

 in S.W. Aukole in the month of November. 



The young bird resembles the adult in general appearance, 

 but the bands surrounding the throat and occiput are com- 

 posed of buff feathers tipped with brown instead of white 

 feathers tipped with black, and the middle of the breast is 

 more barred with reddish-brown than in the adult. 



