840 Messrs. Sclater and Mackwortli-Praed on [l^^i"^ 



Ave have not sufficient material to confinu or dispute all of 

 them : — 



P. 1. lichtensteini Temm. op. cit. : Nubia. 

 P. I. hijjjerythrus Erl. J. f. O. 1905, p. 94: S. Somali- 

 land. 

 P. I. arahicus Neum. 0. M. 1909, p. 152 : S. Arabia. 

 P. I. mhensis Neum. O. M. 1909, p. 153: E. Africa. 

 P. I. targius Schweppenbur^, O. M. 1916, p. 56 : 



Tuareg country, Sahara. 

 P. I. abessinicus Schweppenburg, O. M. 1916, p. 57 : 

 Abyssinia and N. iSomaliland. 



Pterocles quadricinctus lowei. 



Pterocles quadricinctus lowei Claude Grant, Bull. B. O. C. 

 XXXV. 1914, p. 19: Renk, White Nile. 



Pterocles quadricinctus apud Butler, Ibis, 1905, p. 390, 

 1908, p. 260, 1909, p. 90. 



[B. coll.] 1 Setit river May, Kas. ; 1 Jebel Marba Apl. 



Sen. ; 1 El Obeid Apl. Kor. ; 1 Sobat river Mch. U.N. ; 



1 Mongalla Jan. Mon. ; 1 Lado Feb. L.E. ; 1 Eaffali 



Feb. B G. 



[C. & L. coll.] 1 Tonga Feb., 6 adults 1 juv. near Lake 



No Feb. U.N. 

 These s|)ecimens all argee witli C. Grant's type of 

 P. q. lowei, wliicli seems a very well-defined eastern race. 



Family Tuknicid.e. 



Turnix sylvatica lepurana. 



Ortygis lepurana A. Smith, Hep, Exp. App. 1836, p. 55: 

 near Kurrichaue, W. Transvaal. 



Turnix lepurana Reichw. V. A. i. p. 301 ; Butler, Ibis, 

 1908, p. 258. 



[C. & L. coll.] 2 Bahr el Zeraf Feb. U.N. 



We cannot in any way separate these two specimens from 

 the South African form, though T. s. alleni Mearns from 

 East Africa (Smithsonian Misc. Coll. Ivi. no. 20, p. 5) seems 

 a well-marked intervening race. Mr. Butler notes this 

 species as seen but not obtained near Wau, B.G-. 



