594 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
forest-covered hill-sides. It has the habits of the so-called ‘ Cape 
Pheasant’ (I’. clamator), frequenting dense bush, and when flushed 
by dogs flying up to high branches, at which time it elevates its 
crest and watches the movements of the dogs with evident alarm. 
Trides brown. Legsand feet red. Bill black.” Mr. Ayres found it 
near the River Limpopo, and the late Mr. Frank Oates procured 
specimens on the same river and on the Gokwe River. According to 
Mr. Buckley it was very common from the Limpopo up to the 
Matabele country. In the Transvaal, Mr. Ayres says, it is only met 
with in the bush country frequenting the open glades, and he 
considers it a much rarer bird than F’. afer or F. levaillantii. The 
late Professor Peters procured the species in Inhambanie, and 
Mr. Andersson writes :—“ In travelling northward I first met 
with this Francolin on the stony and wooded slopes above 
Okambuté, in Northern Damara Land, and subsequently observed 
it to the north of that locality. It occurs in coveys, and feeds 
on small bulbs, seeds, and berries; its flesh is very palatable.” 
Senor Anchieta has only forwarded a single specimen, obtained 
north of Humbe on the Cunene River. Native name Kalangue. 
Upper surface of the head, rusty-grey, clouded with brown; 
stripe of the eye, chin, and throat white; sides of neck and 
nuchal collar, white, spotted with red; back, rufous-grey, the 
shoulders most rufous, each feather having a broad whitish line 
down the shaft; central tail-feathers light brown, delicately 
mottled with darker brown; outer feathers dark brown ; breast and 
belly, cream-yellow, the former marked with triangular reddish 
brown spots at the point, and a similar coloured line in the centre 
of each feather; the latter minutely barred with fine brown 
transverse lines. Length, 13” 6”; wing, 6’ 6” ; tail, 4”. 
Fig. Smith, Ill. Zool. S. Afr. Aves, pl. 14. 
572. Francotrus aranti, Hartl. Grant’s Francolin. 
This species is smaller than J’, pileatus, which it resembles in 
the white shaft-stripes on the back and the wing, and in the 
triangular chestnut spots on the lower neck and upper chest. The 
vemainder of the under parts have only obsolete vermiculations, 
and some strongly marked buff shaft-stripes, either uniform or 
enclosing a lengthened brown spot. The male has no bars on the 
upper parts, but indistinct barrings are present in the female, 
