348 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant on 



in our National Collection. They were obtained near the 

 sources of the Caledon and Vaal Rivers. 



In 1889 Mr. Buttikofer (< Notes Leyden Mus.' xi. p. 76, 

 pi. iv.) described and figured a second western species 

 of this group from Gambos, which he named F. jugularis. 

 We have, in our collection, four specimens of this bird, two 

 of which were obtained by Mr. Monteiro in Benguela, which 

 is just north of Gambos, while the two others were obtained 

 further south in Great Namaqualand by Mr. Andersson. 

 These birds all bear out the characters given in Mr. Biitti- 

 kofer's description and figure of his F. jugularis, and, though 

 nearly allied to F. gariepensis, even a young male speci- 

 men (in which the white and black feathers are not deve- 

 loped on the chest), can be distinguished by the middle of 

 the lower breast and abdomen being paler buff and imma- 

 culate. The upper breast, too, in our specimens of F. jugu- 

 laris is not nearly so heavily marked as in F. gariepensis, and 

 many of the marks are black instead of rufous. The young 

 male of the western form has the back as strongly trans- 

 versely barred as F. gariepensis, but, as described by 

 Mr. Buttikofer, in the adult of the former the bars are 

 irregularly broken up and become little more than mere 

 vermiculations. 



Francolinus shelleyi, sp.n. 



I have now the pleasure of describing a third species of 

 this group, of which there are three male specimens in Capt. 

 Shelley's collection. These birds were obtained respectively 

 at Natal by Mr. Gordge ; on the Umvuli River, North Mata- 

 beleland, by Mr. J. S. Jameson; and in Swaziland by Mr. 

 T. E. Buckley. 



This species may be distinguished at a glance from F. garie- 

 pensis and F. jugularis by having the middle of the lower 

 breast and abdomen white, irregularly and transversely marked 

 with rather wide black bars. This forms a marked contrast 

 with the upper breast, the feathers of which are rufous- 

 chestnut, with part of the whole of their inner web buff, 

 transversely marked and barred with black. As regards the 



