NO. 20 FIFTEEN NEW AFRICAN BIRDS — MEARNS 5 



Measurements of type {adult male). — Wing, 177 mm.; tail, 90; 

 exposed culmen, 25; tarsus, 52; middle toe (without claw), 42; 

 longest spur, 14. 



Remarks. — The right foot has two developed spurs, the left only- 

 one. 



PTILOPACHUS FUSCUS KENIENSIS, new subspecies 

 Mount Kenia Stone-Pheasant 



Type-Specimen.— Adult male. Cat. No. 56123, Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoolog}^ Cambridge, Massachusetts. Collected on hills 

 west of Mount Kenia, British East Africa, July 28, 1909, by Dr. 

 Glover M. Allen. 



Characters. — Most closely related to Ptilopachus fusciis Horentice, 

 from Gessema, British East Africa, but differing in having the col- 

 oration darker ; the breast is pale buff ; the feathers of the flanks are 

 very narrowly barred with chestnut ; the nape and mantle are with- 

 out any chestnut whatever. "Eye-ring red; legs pink." (Allen.) 



Measurements of type {adult male).—^^^, 120 mm.; tail, 78; 

 culmen, 15; tarsus, 31. 



Average measurements of two adult female topotypes. — Wing, 

 119 mm.; tail, 87; culmen (chord), 16; tarsus, 30.5. 



TURNIX SYLVATICA ALLENI, new subspecies 



Allen's Hemipode 



Type-Specimen. — Adult male. Cat. No. 56126, Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Collected on plains of 

 the N'Guaso Nyiro River, near Mount Kenia, British East Africa, 

 July 20, 1909, by Dr. Glover M. Allen. 



Characters. — Most closely related to Turni.v sylvatica le pur ana 

 (Smith), from which it differs in its m.ore intense coloration; the 

 brown of the crown, mantle, rump, and tail is much darker, and the 

 dark markings are much larger and blacker; the rust color of the 

 chest is also much stronger ; all of the dark markings are increased 

 in area and intensity. 



Measurements of type {adult male). — Wing, 70 mm.; tail, 34; 

 culmen (chord), 12; tarsus, 21. 



Measurements of adult male of Turni.v sylvaticus lepurana (Cat. 

 No. 117841, U. S. N. M., Kahe, south side of Mount Kiliman- 

 jaro).— Wing, 70 mm. ; tail, 34; culmen (chord), 13; tarsus, 21.5. 



