220 Mr. V. G. L. van Someren on Birds 



from the type, which is in the Tring Museum. Dubois 

 described and figured this bird in the * Annals of the 

 Congo Museum.' His specimen is obviously a young bird 

 in the intermediate plumage. It differs from all my birds 

 in the colour of the legs and feet, which are described and 

 figured as being grey. All my birds, and three collected 

 by Sir F, Jackson, have crimson legs. Young birds are 

 similar to adults, except that they are darker on the under 

 side ; the spotting of the neck is not so distinct and does 

 not extend on to the back of it. 



The adult may be described as having the crown of the 

 head dark brownish black, feathers elongated ; posterior 

 half of superciliary stripe black and white. Ear-coverts 

 brownish black or speckled with white ; cheeks, sides of 

 throat, and neck whitish, each feather having pear-shaped 

 terminal black spots, giving the whole a mottled appearance. 

 Mantle and scapulars brown with black vermiculations and a 

 black shaft-patch, in the centre of which the shaft is white. 

 Rump and tail-coverts brown with longitudinal and trans- 

 verse vermiculations ; coverts brown with black centres, 

 towards the extremity of the outer web there is a 

 conspicuous buff spot. Secondaries black with irregular, 

 transverse, pale brown markings. Primaries blackish brown 

 with pale brown edgings to the outer web. Crop and breast- 

 feathers black with two longitudinal, white, irregular stripes ; 

 lower breast-feathers white with central black streak, and 

 narrow black edging. Flank-feathers black with irregular 

 roundish white spots towards the margins of the webs ; some 

 feathers have white shaft-spots. Abdomen greyish black 

 with whitish cross-bars. Under tail-coverts glossy black 

 with a few buff spots on either web. Bare patch round the 

 eyes crimson, base of bill crimson, tip blackish brown. Legs 

 and feet crimson, toes black. 



Found in pairs, usually in the company of Guinea-Fowl ; 

 it is shy and difficult to procure. 



Locality. Mabira Forest, in Uganda. 



