350 Extracts from the 



This species is founded on a single specimen, apparently a 

 fully adult male. 



4. Francolinus castaneicollis. (Plate XI.) 



(1888) Francolinus castaneicollis, Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. 

 Genova, vi. p. 542. 



Through the kindness of Count Salvadori I have received 

 the loan of the type of this beautiful species, which, so far as 

 I know, is still unique, and it is with his kind permission 

 that the accompanying figure is given. 



This specimen was obtained in Shoa, where it was reported 

 as not uncommon, but Count Salvadori informs me that, 

 in spite of his instructions to his collector to procure addi- 

 tional specimens, none have as yet arrived. 



The type, which is preserved in the Zoological Museum at 

 Turin, is apparently a fully adult female, and seems to re- 

 present a distinct group of Francolins, its style of plumage 

 being quite unlike that of any other known species. I shall 

 anxiously await the arrival of more specimens, and can only 

 hope that Count Salvadori will ere long receive examples of 

 the adult male. 



XXXIV. — Extracts from the Letters o/Mr. J. Graham Kerr, 

 Naturalist to the Pilcomayo Expedition*. 



Estancia Mate Grande, 



Argentine Republic, 



November 1889. 



I had a very pleasant, though somewhat tedious passage, 

 arriving in Buenos Aires in the beginning of July. I re- 

 mained in the city of Buenos Aires till the middle of August, 

 at which time I got an invitation to go out and stay at an 

 estancia about eighty leagues to the westward of the city ; 



* [Kindly communicated by Mr. A. Harvie-Brown from letters ad- 

 dressed to Prof. T. Bayley Balfour, F.R..S. As regards the " Pilcomayo 

 Expedition," see Ibis, 1889, p. 402. A subsequent letter to Prof. Balfour, 

 dated Buenos Ayres, Dec. 25, 1889, states tbat, after many delays, the 

 Expedition was just leaving for Corrientes, wbere it was proposed to halt 

 for a few days before proceeding up the Pilcomayo. — Ed.] 



