128 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



Barboza du Bocage, it differs in having the upper-parts brown, 

 spotted with fulvous and black ; the inner webs of the primary 

 flight-feathers pale brown, mottled with buff on the edges ; the 

 tail-feathers blackish, barred and edged with white ; the breast 

 white, strongly striped with brownish-b'ack. The types are an 

 immature male and female, in the Lisbon Museum. 

 Eange. — Western South Africa ; Mossamedes. 



XXXIII. HEUGLIN'S DOUBLE-SPURRED FRANCOLIN. 

 FRANCOLINUS ICTERORHYNCHUS. 



Fra?icol'uius icterorliynchus, Heugl. J. f. O. 1863, p. 275 ; id. 

 1864, p. 27 ; id. Orn. N. O.-Afr. ii. p. 894, pi. 29, fig. 1 

 (1873); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 163 



(1893). 



Adult Male and Female. — Allied to F clappertoni, but the upper- 

 parts are brown, finely mottled with black and buff, apparently 

 much the same as in F. hartlaubi ; the inner webs of the 

 primary flight-feathers brown, barred with rufous-buff; feathers 

 of the under-parts buff, strongly striped down the middle with 

 brownish-black, and often with a detached oval, or round black 

 spot at the end ; tail blackish-brown with irregular rufous-buff 

 bars. Male with two pairs of spurs on the feet ; female with 

 one or two pairs of blunt knobs. Total length, 13*5 inches; 

 wing, 6'8; tail, 3*2 ; tarsus, 2-2. 



Range. — North Central Africa ; Bongo, Djur, Kosanga, and 

 the country to the west of the Albert Nyanza. 



XXXIV. SHARPE'S FRANCOLIN. FRANCOLINUS SHARPII. 



Francolinus clappertoni, Des Murs (nee Children), in Lefebvre's 



Voy. en Abyss, p. 146, pi. xii. (1845-50). 

 Francolinus rueppellii, Gray, et auct. ; Blanf. Geol. and Zool. 



Abyss, p. 425 (1870). 

 Francolinus sharpii, Ogilvie-Grant. Ibis, 1892, p. 47 ; id. Cat. 



B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 164 (1893). 

 Adult Male and Female — Allied to F clappertoni and F gedgit\ 



