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B. Feathers of the back and scapuLar.-j with white 

 shaft-stripes. 



c. Feathers of the chest white, edged with brown. P. leucoscepus, c? $. 



d. Feathers of the chest brown, shading into 



chestnut towards the base, and with a narrow 

 white shaft-stripe, forming a triangular white 

 patch, at the extremity P. mfuscatua, cf 2 • 



1. Pternistes nudicollis. 



Le Gorge-nue, BujQP. Hist. Nat. ii. p. 414 (1771). 

 Bare-necked Partridge, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii, p. 759 (1783). 

 Tetrao nudicuUis, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Eol. p. 11, no. 180 (1783). 

 Perdix nudicollis. Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 644 (1790). 

 Pternistes nudicollis, Gray, List Gall. B. iii. p. 32 (1844). 

 Franculinus nudicollis. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 506 (1846). 

 Francolinus capensis, Steph. in Shawns Gen. Zool. xi. p. 333 

 (1819) [part]. 

 Hub. South Africa : Transvaal, Cape Colony. 



2. Pternistes humboldti. 



Francolinus humboldti, Peters, MB. Berl. Akad. Wissensch. 

 1854, p. 131. 



Pternistes humbuldti, Bocage, J. f. 0. 1876, p. 304; Grant, 

 Ann. Mag. N. H. vii. p. 145 (1891). 



Francolinus nudicollis, Fischer & Reich. J, f. O. 1879, 

 p. 339. 



Pternistes nudicollis^ Fischer, J. f. O. 1885, p. 121 ; Shelley, 

 P. Z. S. 1881, p. 597. 



Francolinus {Pternistes) leucoparaus , Fischer & Reich. J. 

 f. O. 1884, p. 203. 



Pternistes leucoparaeus , Fischer, J. f, O. 1885, p. 121 ; 

 Matschie, J. f. O. 1889, p. 340; Reich. J. f. O. 1890, p. 77. 



Hab. East Africa : from the Zambesi to the River Tana. 



3. Pternistes afer. 



La Perdrix d'AJrique, D'Aubent. PI. Enl. ii. pi. 48 

 (no. 180). 

 La Perdrix rouge, Buff. Hist. Nat. ii. p. 44 (1771). 

 Tetrao afer, Miill. S. N. Suppl. p. 129 (1776). 

 Red-necked Parlridye, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 771 (1783). 

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



