DESCRIPTION OF TEN NEW AFRICAN BIRDS. 



By EDGAR A. MEARNS 

 Associate in Zoology, United States National Museum 



This paper is the eleventh dealing with the results of the Smith- 

 sonian African Expedition under the direction of Col. Theodore 

 Roosevelt. It embraces descriptions of ten new species and sub- 

 species of birds, eight of which were discovered by members of the 

 Expedition. 



Francolinus schuetti Cabanis is represented in East Africa by 

 three slight but quite recognizable forms, from the Mount Kiliman- 

 jaro region, from the Mount Kenia region, and from the interven- 

 ing Kapiti Plains, respectively. Specimens from each of these areas 

 are quite tmiform, and are described below. 



FRANCOLINUS SCHUETTI MARANENSIS, new subspecies 



Mount Kilimanjaro Francolin 



Type-specimen. — Adult male. Cat. No. 117819, U. S. N. M. 

 Collected at Maranu, Mount Kilimanjaro, German East Africa, alti- 

 tude 5,000 feet, April 5, 1888, by Dr. W. L. Abbott. 



Characters. — Similar to Francolinus schuetti schuetti. Crown 

 sepia; feathers of back and scapulars dark brown, edged, except at 

 tip, with pale gray, with chestnut shaft-streaks and coarse marginal 

 black speckles ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts vandyke 

 brown vermiculated with black ; outer webs of outer primaries mot- 

 tled and penciled with rusty brown ; rectrices vandyke brown broadly 

 banded with black; feathers of chest broccoli brown with broad api- 

 cal shaft-stripes of prout's brown, without speckles; lower breast, 

 upper abdomen, and flanks broccoli brown with darker brown cen- 

 ters to the feathers and narrow submarginal creamy v/hite stripes. 



Measurements of type (from skin). — Wing, 168 mm.; tail, 83; 

 exposed culmen, 25.5; tarsus, 54; middle toe (without claw), 42. 



Material. — Five specimens from Mount Kilimanjaro, German 

 East Africa, collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott. 



Remarks. — The juvenal plumage of this form has been described 

 by Mr. Oberholser (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 28, 1905, p. 834). 



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