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1. AGELASTES MELEAGRIDES. The African Agelastes. 



Agelastes rueleagrides, Ternm., Bp. Proc. Z. S. 1849, p. 145 ; 

 Sckl. Handb. Voy. tig. 57. 

 a. Elmina, West Africa. From M. Brandt's Collection. 



4. PHASIDUS. 

 Phasidus, Cass. Proc. Ac. Sc. Phil. (1851) p. 322. 



1. PHASIDUS NIGER. The Black Phasidus. 



Phasidus niger, Cass. Proc. Ac. Sc. Phil. 1851, p. 322, ei Journ. 

 iv. pi. 3. 



aj b. Ogobai, West Africa. From M. du Chaillu's Collec- 

 tion. 



Fam. V. TETRAONID^E. 



i. PEBDICIN&. 



1. PTILOPACHUS. 



Ptilopachus, Swains. Classif. of B. ii. p. 344 (1837). 



Petrogallus, Gray (1837). 



Ptilopachys, StricU. Ann.tyMag. Nat. Hist. (1841) p. 37. 



1. PTILOPACHUS VENTHALIS. The Buff-breasted Partridge. 



Perdix ventralis, Valenc. Diet. Sc. Nat. xxxviii. p. 435. 



Perdix fusca, Vieill Gal des Ois. t. 212. 



Ptilopachus erythrorhynchus, Swains. B. of W. Afr. ii. p. 220. 



Petrogallus fuscus, Gray in Jard. fy Selby, III. Orn. n. s. pi. 16. 



Ptilopachus ventralis, G. JR. Gray. 



Ptilopachus fuscus, G. R. Gray, List of Gallina, p. 31. 



a. West Africa. 



b. Gambia. 



c. d. West Africa. From Mr. Warwick's Collection. 



2. Ptilopachus (Ophrysia) superciliosus, Gray. 



