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NuMiDA MiTRATA, Piill. E. ;>t)l. (1 F.) Resident. 



I. straw-yellow ; eyelids, iipjtor half of wattle, and bare 

 skill of neck greenirih ; B. red at base, changing to dull 

 horn-colour at tip ; casque dull horn-colour, lighter poste- 

 riorly ; lower half of wattles scarlet ; bare skin of head dull 

 scarlet ; an irregular band extending from the occiput to 

 feathers on the lower hind-neck^ black ; throat dull Prussian 

 blue. Leng. 527; W. 2(y^ ; Tb 105; Ts. 75; C. 25; 

 casque from occiput to })eak 14. 



Laro;e flocks of these Guinea-fowl were found in the 

 neighbourhood of all large clearings. Native name 

 " Kanga." 



Pternistes humboldti (Ptrs.). p. 378. (2 M., 1 F.) 

 Pesident. 



Native name " Kuali." 



1. light brown ; B. upper mandible, basal two-thirds 

 brownish, apical third dull red-brown, lower mandible orange; 

 L. dull red-brown. M. : Leng. 353 ; W. ll»3-203 ; Tl. 82- 

 [)5; Ts. 59-60 ; C. 23-24. F. : Leng. 325; W. 170; Tl. 74; 

 Ts. 51; C. 20. 



The smaller of the two MM. has two spurs, and the larger 

 only one, on each leg. 



The White-ringed Pheasant has a noisy habit of crowing 

 from the top of some conspicuous perch, such as an ant-hill 

 or stump of a tree; this might be described as " Kw^aherie," 

 repeated several times with a stress on the last two syllables, 

 at first increasing in volume and then dying down to a 

 chuckling note. It is a common bird in old clearings, and 

 is often caught in traps by natives. Newly hatched chicks 

 were brought to us by natives early in May. 



Francolinus coqui (A. Smith). II. 416. (2 M.) Resi- 

 dent. 



I. pale brown ; B. above dark brown, below light brown, 

 tip yellow; L. pale yellow. Leng. 298; W. 138; Tl. 70; 

 Ts. 28; C. 23. 



These two specimens agree with the description of F. coqui 

 arigolens'is, Rothschild, but as they have only half-developed 



