44 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant on- the 



?Pternistes [Scleroptila] afra, Blyth, Cat. B. Miis. As. Soc. 

 p. 250 (1849). 



Chcetopus uftr, Bonap. C. R. xlii. p. 882 (1856). 



Francolinus africanus, Steph, in Shawns Gen. Zool. xi. 

 p. 323 (1819). 



As the majority of authors consider the Pternistes, or 

 Bare-throated Francolins^ as merely a subgenus of Franco- 

 linus, I deem it advisable to adopt the later name F. afri- 

 canus, Steph.^ for this species, in preference to Perclix afra, 

 Lath., as that name [Tetrao afer) had already been used by 

 P. L. S. Miiller for a species of Pternistes. 



Hab. South Africa : Transvaal and Cape Colony. 



18. Francolinus uluensis^ sp. n. 



I was at first somewhat doubtful whether two specimens 

 collected by Mr. F. J. Jackson at Machakos, in the Ulu 

 country, should be referred to F. gutturalis or not. One 

 would certainly expect to find them distinct from the 

 Abyssinian birds, and on comparing them with typical 

 specimens from Abyssinia the differences, although few, 

 seem sufficient to justify their separation. 



Both specimens are males, with fully-developed spurs, and 

 they differ from F. gutturalis in the two following points. 

 On the side of the neck, betM'cen the continuations of the 

 rufous-buff superciliary and cheek-stripes, and beliind the 

 ear-coverts, lies a well-marked' triangular patch, an inch or 

 more in length, of white feathers with black tips. There is 

 no trace of this in F. gutturalis, but it is equally distinct in 

 F. afer from S. Africa. Again, the feathers of the breast 

 and belly, instead of having black shaft-strijies, are covered 

 with irregular arch-shaped black bars, which give these parts 

 an ocellated appearance much as in F. afer. The tarsus 

 is longer than in F. gutturalis, 1'6 as against 1*4 inches. 



Total length 12'0 inches, wing 6*5, tail 2"9, tarsus 1"6. 



Hab. East Africa : Ulu country. 



19. Francolinus castaneicollis. 



Francolinus castaneicollis, Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. 

 Genov. vi. p. 542 (1888) ; Grant, Ibis, 1890, p. 350, pi. xi. 

 Hab. North-east Africa : Lago, Ciar-Ciar, Shoa. 



