NO. 20 FIFTEEN NEW AFRICAN BIRDS — MEARNS 3 



FRANCOLINUS GRISESCENS, new species 



Graj'ish Francolin 



Type-Specimen. — Adult female. Cat. No. 216223, U. S. N. M. 

 Collected at Lokko Zegga, Uganda, Africa, February 13, 1910, by 

 Edgar A. Mearns. Original number, 18407. 



Characters. — Allied to Francolimis clappertoni Children, but ap- 

 parently much smaller than the subspecies gedgii and Jieuglini; 

 females without chestnut markings ; crown and ear-coverts prouts 

 brown ; feathers of upper side of neck and mantle black or brownish 

 black, bordered with white except at the tips, and with narrow 

 white shaft-stripes posteriorly ; general color of remainder of upper 

 parts grayish drab ; feathers of back and rump with sagittate black 

 markings and pale shaft-stripes ; outer surface of wings spotted and 

 irregularly cross-banded with grayish rusty white ; wing-quills dark 

 brown, cross-banded with rusty white and without longitudinal 

 markings ; tail brownish black, narrowly cross-banded with grayish 

 white or rusty white ; sides of head and neck buffy white, narrowly 

 striped with black ; chin and throat plain buffy white ; remainder of 

 under parts pale buff with brownish black markings, those of the 

 chest V-shaped, with guttate extremities on the lower breast and 

 sides, becoming oval or elliptical and sparse on the abdomen, and 

 irregularly hastate on the posterior flanks and upper thighs ; under 

 tail-coverts buffy white, broadly banded with dark brown. 



Measurements of type-specimen (adult female). — Wing. 155 mm. ; 

 tail, 73; exposed culmen (chord), 26; tarsus, 47. 



Material. — Six females from the upper Bahr el Jebel, near Lake 

 Albert. 



FRANCOLINUS GRANTII DELUTESCENS, new subspecies 



Kasorongai Francolin 



Type-Specimen.— Adult male. Cat. No. 214748, U. S. N. M. Col- 

 lected on a high, wooded hill at the base of Mount Kenia, west of 

 the camp on the N'joro or Kasorongai River, altitude 7000 feet, 

 British East Africa, October 19, 1909, by Edgar A. Mearns. Origi- 

 nal number, 171 72. 



Characters.— Most closely related to Francolinus grantii grantii 

 Hartlaub and Francolinus grantii ochrogaster (Hartlaub). From 

 the latter it may at once be distinguished by its considerably larger 

 size and much less ochraceous coloration. It is more closely related 

 to typical grantii; compared with that bird it is seen that the size is 



