VULTUllINE GUINEA-FOWL 



The description of the Grant's zebra was taken 

 from a specimen shot by myself on the Athi Plains, 

 on a former visit to British East Africa. 



Of the game-birds which I saw, none is more 

 handsome than the vulturine guinea-fowl, and through- 

 out my journey it formed the 'puce de resistance of my 

 daily menu. Scarcely less handsome, and equally 

 numerous in the western part of Jubaland, was a 

 species of francolin {Pternistes infuscahis). The head 

 and upper part of the neck is devoid of feathers. The 

 bare skin of face and throat is of a brilliant red, 



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