NO. 1411. BIRDS FROM MO VNT KILIMANJARO— OBERHOLSER. 



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FRANCOLINUS ULUENSIS Grant. 



Francolinns ulaensis Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 44 (Machako'H, Ulu country, British 

 East Africa). 



Three .specimens: one from Taveta; one from Lake Chala, near 

 Mount Kilimanjaro; the other without data. All appear to be t3'pical, 

 bearing' out the specitic characters assigned by Mr. Grant. This 

 species has hitherto been reported onl}^ from Ukamba and the Ulu 

 country, south of Mount Kenia, so that Doctor Abbott's specimens 

 extend its range some distance to the southward. Two of these 

 examples are further interesting on account of being females. They 

 are smaller than the male, and lack spurs, but are quite similar in 

 plumage, except for being possibly a little more grayish on the upper 

 parts. They measure as follows: 



FRANCOLINUS HILDEBRANDTI HILDEBRANDTI Cabanis. 



Frcmcolinus (Sderoptera) Jdldehrandti Cabanis, Journ. f. Ornith., 1878, pp. 20(5, 

 24:3, pi. IV, fi^. 2 (Ndi, Teita, British East Africa). 



Six specimens, from Mount Kilimanjaro, at 5,000 feet. One of the 

 two adult females differs from the other in having considerably paler 

 lower parts, a conspicuous mottling of blackish on the feathers of the 

 upper breast, and very broad dark-brown instead of rufous bars on 

 the lower tail-coverts. An immature female corresponds very closely 

 to the description of a similar specimen, the type of Fr<i))v<>li7ius 

 -fischeri^ given by Reichenow," and in color differs from the adult of 

 the same sex in being lighter, much more coarsely mottled above, the 

 tertials particularly with large spear-shaped spots of deep brown; 

 very much paler below — ochraceous butf in place of deep tawny, many 

 of the feathers broadly margined with whitish, the chin and throat 

 whitish, the jugulum, 1)reast, and sides of neck heavily streaked and 

 spotted with blackish brown, the sides of the body ])roadly streaked 

 with the same color; lower tail-coverts with l)ut small obsolete sub- 

 terminal markings of dusky. The tarsal spur is not absent in the adult 

 female, but is shorter, stouter, and not so sharp as in the male. Doctor 

 Abbott reports this species "very common, to judge from the num- 

 bers of snared ones brought for sale b}^ the natives." 



« V5gel African, T, 1901, pp. 478-479. 



