834 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vou xxvm. 



FRANCOLINUS SCHUETTI SCHUETTI Cabanis. 



Fraricolimis {Sclrropterd) Kclnielli Cabanis, Joiirii. f. Ornith., 1.S80, j). 351 

 (Northern Lunda, Kongo Free State). 



Five specimens fi'oin Mount Kilimanjaro, 5,000 and 7,000 feet. Of 

 an adult male, ol)tained April (J, 1IS88, Doctor Abbott says: " Brouj^ht 

 alive by natives; bill and feet red, iris dark brown.'' The female is 

 smaller than the mal(% l)ut not apprecia])ly different in color. 



As the Juvenal plumao-c of this s[)ecies seems to be unknown, the fol- 

 lowlno- description, taken from a specimen collected August 9, 1888, 

 ma}' be of interest: Pileum ])istre brown, almost uniform; rest of upper 

 parts, including' the tail, rich Vandyke brown, the feathers of the 

 nape, back, and scapulars with large ))lack sul)terminal markings, and 

 furthermore varied with bars and small shaft streaks of buff, tawny, 

 or ochraceous; rump and upper tail-coverts obscurtdy, irregularly, 

 and narrowly barred with blackish and tawny; the tail ])ai'red narrowly 

 with dusky; wings fuscous, the coverts and outer webs of the (juills 

 reddish l)rown, paler than the upper surface of the body, tinely ver- 

 miculated and ot)soletely ])arred with Idackish, the coverts and the 

 primaries in places with additional bars of ochraceous, the tertials 

 marked with )>lack like the feathers of the ))ack; extreiue forehead, 

 lores, orbital region, and broad supercilium ochraceous butt'; cheeks 

 and auriculars dull brown, slightly mixed with grayish; chin plain 

 butty white; bi'east and juguhnn, including the sides of the neck, 

 mottled with blackish brown, ochraceous, buff, and whitish, chiefly in 

 more or less irregular l)ars, the feathers with pale shaft lines; remain- 

 der of lower parts prout's brown, paler medially, rather more rufes- 

 cent posteriorly, everywhere with various blackish, ochraceous, and 

 whitish markings, all these most obscured on the crissum; sides and 

 flanks with butty shaft lines. 



PTERNISTES LEUCOSCEPUS INFUSCATUS (Cabanis). 



I'teriui>tex iiifiisf((tit.<< ('abanis, Joiirii. f. Ornith., 1S68, p. 418 (Lake Jipe, German 

 East Africa). 



Three typical specimens without data, but presumabl}' from the 

 neighl)orhood of Mount Kilimanjaro. 



Family PFRDICID.F. 



COTURNIX DELEGORGUEI Delegorgue. 



Coturnix delegorgiiei Delegorgie, Voy. IWfr. Austr., II, 1S47, p. 615 (Limpopo 

 River, southeastern Africa). 



Six .specimens, from Taveta, and Mount Kilimanjaro at 5,000 feet 

 altitude. "Iris of adult male light l)rown; feet light straw color.'' 

 An immature male, taken December 25, 18Sl>, on Mount Kilimanjaro, 



