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slightly greater ; the general color is much more grayish, especially 

 on the back, rump, and chest ; the belly and crissum are much less 

 ochraceous ; the neck-collar of subtriangular chestnut markings is 

 narrower, with the spots smaller ; the upper parts are less rufescent — 

 more olivaceous than reddish brown ; the white shaft-streaks of the 

 upper parts are much narrower and more broadly bordered with 

 black ; the crown is darker, with the bases of the feathers black 

 instead of brown. Females have the upper parts much more abun- 

 dantly vermiculated, cross-banded, and dotted with black than in the 

 females of typical grantii or ochrogaster. 



Comparative measurements. — Average of two adult males of 

 Fraiicolinns grantii delutescens: Wing, 146 mm.; tail, 87; exposed 

 culmen (chord), 20; tarsus, 41. 



Average of two adult males of Francolimis grantii grantii: Wing, 

 143 mm. ; tail, 90; exposed culmen (chord), 19.5 ; tarsus, 42. 



Average of two adult males of Francolimis grantii ochrogaster: 

 W'ing, 135; tail. 86; exposed culmen (chord), 19; tarsus, 40. 



FRANCOLINUS SCHUETTI ZAPPEYI, new subspecies 

 Zappey's Francolin 



Type-Specimen. — Adult male. Cat. No. 56122, Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Collected on the east 

 shore of Lake Victoria, in British East Africa, October 3, 1910, by 

 Walter R. Zappey. 



Characters. — Most closely related to Francolimis schuetti kapit- 

 ensis Mearns, the palest and grayest of the four recognized sub- 

 species of Francolimis schuetti Cabanis, from which it may be 

 readily distinguished by the very broad pale edging to the feathers 

 of the under parts and the absence of coarse markings on the upper 

 parts ; the crown is grayer and less brownish olive ; the back and 

 scapulars are much the same, but with clearer gray margins to the 

 feathers ; the general color of the lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts is more olive brown, with the vermiculations obsolete ; the 

 outer webs of the outer primaries are plain dark brown ; the rec- 

 trices are warm brown, with scarcely a trace of vermiculations ; the 

 feathers of the chest are grayish hair brown with apical shaft- 

 stripes of broccoli brown, not flecked with black near the shafts ; the 

 feathers of the lower breast, upper abdomen, and flanks- are soiled 

 grayish white with shaft-stripes of hair brown ; the under tail- 

 coverts are hair brown broadly bordered with huffy white. " Bill 

 and tarsi deep orange." (Zappey.) 



