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black bars ; it resembles the latter species in having a patch of 

 black and white feathers at the base of the throat. Total 

 length, 13 inches; wing, 5*8; tail, 3*4; tarsus, 1*5. 



Eange. — Eastern South Africa ; Natal, Swaziland, to 

 Mashona-land and Nyasa-land, and probably north to Zan- 

 zibar. 



Habits. — Mr. Ayres writes : " This is the commonest of the 

 Francolins on the Umvuli River, where it frequents the grassy 

 and rocky slopes of the adjacent ranges. On the 7th of 

 September a nest was found with three eggs ; it was placed in 

 a slight excavation in the ground, amongst high dry grass, and 

 was lined with soft, half-decayed grass bents, mixed with a few 

 feathers. The eggs were slightly incubated." 



XXV. THE ELGON FRANCOLIN. FRANCOLINUS ELGONENSIS. 



Francolinus e/gonensis, Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1891, p. 126; id. 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 157, pi. v. (1893). 



Adult Female. — Allied to the last three species, but most nearly 

 to the last-mentioned F. shelleyi. From all it is easily distin- 

 guished by having the nape and upper back rufous-chestnut, with 

 rounded spots of black, and the sides of the face and neck be- 

 tween the black and white stripes clear buff; the ground- 

 colour of the upper-parts mostly rich black ; belly and under- 

 pays black, tipped and barred with buff mixed with rufous. 

 Total length, 12 inches, wing, 6*9; tail, 3*2 ; tarsus, r8. 



Range. — Central East Africa ; Mount Elgon. 



Mr. F. J. Jackson, the discoverer of this fine species of Red- 

 winged Francolin, obtained the only example known at an 

 elevation of 1 1,000 feet. It was shot out of a flock of four, 

 and he believes it to be the same species that he saw on the 

 Mau escarpment at a height of 9,000 feet. 



XXVI. THE INDIAN SWAMP FRANCOLIN. FRANCOLINUS 

 GULARIS. 



Perdix gularis, Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 401, 731 (18 15); 

 J. E. Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 56, fig. 1 (1830-32).. 



