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milky white, but changes into dark blue immediately 

 after death , and afterwards into black. 



The half-grown specimen had , when obtained , partially 

 assumed the plumage of the adult stage. To conclude from 

 the remainders of the first plumage, this latter must be 

 very much different from that of the adult bird. The whole 

 head and neck, naked in the adult stage, is tolerably 

 thickly covered with short , downy , blackish brown fea- 

 thers , only the superciliary region is separated from the 

 occipital one by a narrow band of fulvous feathers, be- 

 ginning on the front and ending on the neck. The white 

 collar, so characteristical in the adult stage, is wanting, 

 and the feathers of these parts are blackish brown , without 

 vermiculations. The rest of the plumage is of the same 

 color , somewhat paler underneath , with rusty brown tip 

 and zigzag crossbands to each feather. The quills and pro- 

 bably also the tail-feathers , are marbled with rusty red on 

 the tip and outer web. The centre of the abdomen is pure 

 white , while in adult specimens this part is dark mouse-gray. 



The bird seems to get both the red and milky color on 

 head and neck after having lost the feathers on these parts. 

 The bill is dark brown, the feet olivaceous brown. 



129. Francolinus I a t h ami, Hartl. 

 Butt. N. L. M. 1885, p. 231; id. 1886, p. 265. 



Several specimens from Hill Town and Weflah on the 

 Du Queah. 



Two eggs, similar to that mentioned in the first of my 

 above cited notes , as possibly belonging to F. ahantensis , 

 I received at Hill Town, and I am convinced of their belong- 

 ing to F. lathami. 



130. G I ar e I a megapoda, Gray. 



Butt. N. L. M. 1885, p. 233, 256. 



Collected on the Fisherman Lake, near the falls of the 

 Du Queah , St. John's- and Cestos River. 



iNotes from the Leyden Mluseum , Vol. X. 



