THE BARE-THROATED FRANCOLINS. 1 37 



Francolinus {Pternistes) leucoparceus, Fischer and Reichenow, 

 J. f. O. 1884, p. 263. 



Adult Male. — Like P. nudicollis, but the feathers from the 

 gape to the cheek are white; the black shaft-stripes on the 

 feathers of the mantle narrow, scarcely extending beyond the 

 shaft; and the breast and under-parts black (with a white 

 stripe on either side of the shaft in younger males). Sides of 

 the neck black. Bill, feet, and naked skin round the eye and 

 on the throat blood-red. Total length, 14 inches; wing, 7-4 ; 

 tail, 3-5; tarsus, 2*4. 



Adult Female. — Differs chiefly in having the feathers from the 

 gape to the cheek black and white; the sides of the neck 

 white, with a wide black band down the middle; and the under- 

 parts with traces here and there of white shaft-stripes. Smaller; 

 wing, 7 inches. No spurs. 



Range. — East Africa, from the Tana River to the Zambesi. 



III. SCLATER'S BARE-THROATED FRANCOLIN. PTERNISTES AFER. 



Tetrao afer, Miill. S. N. Suppl. p. 129 (1766). 

 Tetrao rubricollis, Gmel. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 758 (1788). 

 Pternistes sclateri, Bocage, J. Sc. Lisb. i. p. 327, pi. vi. (1868). 

 Pternistes rubricollis, Auctorum, passim. 



Pternistes afer, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 177 

 (i393). 



Adult Male. — Like P. nudicollis, but the eyebrow-stripes and 

 feathers between the gape and cheek are pure white ; breast 

 and under-parts white, with a wide black band down the middle 

 of each feather. Feathers of upper-chest grey, finely dotted 

 towards the extremity with black. Total length, 14 inches; 

 wing, 7-1 ; tail, 3*1 ; tarsus, 2-2. 



Adult Female. — Differs chiefly in having the feathers of the 

 chest brownish-grey, with black shaft-stripes. Smaller ; wing, 

 6*5 inches. No spurs. 



Range. — South-western Africa; Mossamedes, Benguela, An- 

 gola. 



