40 Mr. \V. L. Sclater on Birds collected 



from Zanzibar Tslaiul. It can at once be distinguished from 

 F. sephaena and F. yrantl by the chocolate-browu streaks on 

 the abdouicn. 



['• Nygelele " of the Ntebis. 



Kirk's Francolin Mas only taken in one locality and was 

 there by no means plentiful. It is always found in pairs, 

 and in habits exactly resembles F. sephana. 



The soft parts are : — Irides dark brown ; bill black ; legs 

 and toes red.] 



649. Francolinus africanus. 



CC. Kliptonteiu, June (3); Tokai, Feb. (2) ; Tv. Wakker- 

 btroom, INIch. (2). 



The specimens from Naraaqualand have the chin and 

 throat completely black-spotted, while those from the Cape 

 Division have the central area plain white and only the sides 

 and throat spotted, or, perhaps more correctly, oeellated with 

 white on black. 



The birds from Wakkerstroom are again quite different- 

 looking from those of the Cape ; they are miich more ochreous 

 in general tone, and the lower breast and abdomen instead of 

 bearing the white ocellations on black, so characteristic of 

 the true Cape Grey wing, are of a pale fulvous irregularly 

 banded with brown. 



1 should certainly be disposed to recognise this form as a 

 distinct subspecies, but the series in the British Museum is 

 very incomplete, while the members of this genus are 

 notoriously variable, probably on account of their sedentary 

 habits. 



Of the two birds from Wakkerstroom, one is a young male 

 of the year, the other an adult female ; a male from Potchef- 

 stroom, in the British Museum, agrees with this very well, 

 while an example from the Drakensberg in Natal comes 

 nearer the Cape form ; the series from Deelfontein, collected 

 by Grant and Seimund, are all quite typical. 



["Greywing" of the Colonists. 



This is strictly a bird of the mountains, and, except in the 

 Cape Peninsula, is never seen in country devoid of stones. 



