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Francolinus petiti, Bocage, J. Sc. Lisb. vii. p. 68 (1879). 

 Francolinus modestus, Cabanis, J. f. O. 1889, p. 89. 



Adult Male and Female. — Feathers of back of neck and mantle 

 reddish-brown, blotched with black and edged with white; rest of 

 the upper-parts brown, with darker centres, and finely mottled 

 with black ; under-parts brownish-buff, with the shaft of the 

 feathers only dark. 



Male with one or two pairs of spurs, the lower one long and 

 sharp. Total length, 13-5 inches; wing, 7-3; tail, 3*5; tarsus, 2*1. 



Female. — Somewhat smaller; wing, 6*6 inches. No spurs. 



Range. — West Africa ; Loango Coast and Gaboon. 



xli. schuett's francolin. francolinus schuetti. 



Franco lifius schuetti, Cabanis, J. f. O. 1880, p. 351, 1881, pi. 

 ii.; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 170 (1893). 

 Adult Male. — Very similar to F. squamatus, but the feathers 

 of the neck and mantle are more widely margined, and with 

 grey ; the feathers of the middle of the breast and belly are 

 dull grey round the margins, shading into brown towards the 

 shaft. Total length, 13 inches; wing, 6*9; tail, 3*4; tarsus, 



2*1. 



Adult Female. — Differs slightly from the male in having the 

 feathers of the middle of the breast and belly margined with 

 pale buff. Somewhat smaller; wing, 6'6 inches. 



Range. — West Africa, from Lunda, Angola; East Africa, 

 Lake Naivasha, Kilimanjaro district, 5,0c o to 6,000 feet, 

 Chaga district, and Pangani River. 



XLII. THE AHANTA FRANCOLIN. FRANCOLINUS AHANTENSIS. 



Francolinus ahantensis, Teram. Bijdr. tot de Dierk. i. p. 49, 

 pi. 14 (1854); Biittikofer, Notes Leyd. Mus. vii. p. 231 

 (1885); xi. p. 126 (1889); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xxii. p. 171 (1893) 



