54 On the Genera Francoliuus cmd Pternistes. 



Perdix rubricollis, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 648 (1790). 



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

 p. 335 (1819). 



Pternistes rubricollis, Bocage, J. Sci. Lisb. iii. p. 175 (1871). 



Perdix nudicollis, Temra. Pig. et Gall. iii. p. 317, 720 

 (1815) [part]. 



Pternistes nudicollis, Gurney in Anderss. B. Damara- 

 land, p. 244 (1872). 



Pternistes sclateri, Bocagc, J. Sci. Lisb. i. p. 327, pi. vi. 

 (1868). 



Hab. Western South Africa : Mossamedes, Benguela, 

 Angola. 



4. Pternistes cranchi. 



Perdix cranchi, Leach, in Tuckey's Narrat. Explor. River 

 Zaire, App. p. 408 (1818). 



Francolinus cranchi, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xi. p. 33G 

 (1819). 



Pternistes cranchi, Wagl. Isis, 1832, p. 1229 ; Gray, List 

 Gall. B. iii. p. 32 (1844). 



Perdix punctulata, Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. ii. pi. 43. fig. 3 

 (1833-4). 



Arboricola punctulata, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 160. 



Pternistes lucani, Bocage, J. Sci. Lisb. vii. p. 68 (1879). 



Hab. West Africa : Congo ; Marungu Country, west of 

 Lake Tanganyika. 



5. Pternistes boehmi. 



Francolinus cranchi, Finsch & Hartl. {nee Leach) Ost-Afr. 

 p. 579, pi. ix. (1870). 



Pternistes bohmi, Reich. J. f. O. 1885, p. 465. 



Francolinus rubricollis, Bohni, J. f. O. 1885, pp. 39, 71. 



Hab. Central East Africa : Usui, Victoria Nyanza, Unyam- 

 uesi, Unyanyembe, Ugogo. 



6. Pternistes swainsoni. 



Perdix swaiiisoni, Smith, Rep. Exp. Cent. Afr. p. 54 (1836) . 

 Francolinus swainsoni^ Smith, 111. Zool. S. Afr. pi. 12 (1838). 

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

 Hub. South Africa : jNIatabcle, Transvaal, Cape Colony, 

 Damaraland. 



