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FRANCOLINUS SCHUETTI KAPITENSIS, new subspecies 



Kapiti Plains Francolin 



Type-Specimen. — Probably adult male (specimen not sexed). 

 Cat. No. 213421, U. S. N. M. Collected at Juja Farm, near the 

 Athi River, British East Africa, altitude about 4.200 feet, May 24, 

 1909, by J. Alden Loring. Original number, iii. 



Characters. — Crown brownish olive mixed with gray : feathers of 

 back and scapulars grayish hair brown mixed with black, broadly 

 bordered with hair brown, without chestnut shaft-streaks or con- 

 spicuous marginal black spots: general color of lower back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts olive-brown ; outer webs of outer primaries 

 plain dark brown ; rectrices mars brown coarsely vermiculated with 

 black ; feathers of chest hair brown with narrow apical shaft-stripes 

 of broccoli brown, thickly flecked with black near the shafts ; lower 

 breast, upper abdomen, and flanks hair brown dotted with black near 

 the feather-shafts, and with broad creamy buff submarginal bands. 



Measurements of type.—Wmg, 167 mm.; tail, 85; exposed cul- 

 men, 26.5; tarsus, 51; middle toe (without claw). 41. 



Material. — Three specimens from Juja Farm and Nairobi. British 

 East Africa. 



Remarks. — Two developed spurs on each tarsus, and its larger 

 size, make it quite certain that the type is a male, as females usually 

 lack developed spurs. 



FRANCOLINUS SCHUETTI KENIENSIS, new subspecies 



Mount Kenia Francolin 



Type-speciiiien.— Adult male. Cat. No. 214739, U. S. N. M. Col- 

 lected at Nyeri (altitude 5,943 feet), base of Mount Kenia, British 

 East Africa, September 16, 1909, by Edgar A. Mearns. Original 

 number, 16828. 



Characters. — Crown bistre ; feathers of back and scapulars bistre 

 thickly vermiculated with black, and narrowly bordered with brown- 

 ish gray finely mixed with blackish ; lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts bistre vermiculated with black ; outer web of outer pri- 

 maries plain dark brown ; rectrices brown, finely vermiculated with 

 black ; feathers of chest hair brown with a large apical spot of sepia ; 

 lower breast, upper abdomen, and flanks sepia, the feathers broadly 

 edged with buft'y white penciled with sepia. 



Measurements of type. — Wing, 175 mm.; tail, 84 i? exposed cul- 

 men. 27: tarsus, 49; middle toe (without claw), 40. 



