EINAR LÖNNBERG, BIRDS FROM BRIT. E. AFRICA. 



on either side bordered by påle, dull buffish bands, and 

 outside of them again a blackish band. The small wings are 

 spotted witli black and buffish and have a large rufous or 

 chestnut spöt on the inner side. Breast and flanks buff , throat 

 and belly white. Such a striped pattern must, of course, be 

 strongly protective for small birds living among dry grass. 

 But at the same time it undoubtedly is an ancestral feature, 

 which is shared by the downy youngs of several, not even 

 distantly related, forms like emu, cassowary, ostrich, grebes, 

 jacana, some wading birds and some gulls etc, while the 

 remains of such a pattern may be traced in many others. 



22. Francoliiius scliiitti Cabanis. — 3 J" J^, 1 $, and 

 2 unsexed from Donya Sabuk, V^ — ^V^- 



The exceedingly wide area of distribution of this species 

 appears to be still somewhat extended by this. O. Neumann 

 has said^ about this Francolin that it »lebt sehr versteckt im 

 dunkeln Urwald». This appears according to my experience 

 to be an exaggerated statement as I found it 191] in sham- 

 bas and bush outside the forest, and among grass as well. 



In the year 1910 Mearns created not less than three 

 subspecies of Francolinus schutti for East Africa and for areas 

 situated so near each other as Kenia, Kilimanjaro and the 

 intermediate steppe, Kapiti plains, Juja. According to the 

 author quoted these subspecies should differ in the following 

 points : 



F. s. maranensis F. s. kapitensis F. s. keniensis 



from Kilimanjaro: from Juja, Athi froinKenia,Nyiri: 

 river & Nairobi: 



Crown : 



Feathers of back 

 and scapulars : 



Lower back, rump ; 



sepia 



dark brown, ed- 

 ged with påle 

 gray, chestnut 

 shaft streaks, co- 

 arse marginal 

 black speckles 



vandyke brown 



vermiculated 

 with black 



brownish olive bistre 

 mixed with gray 



grayish hair- 

 brown mixed 

 with black, bor- 

 dered with hair- 

 brown (no shaft- 

 streaks nor mar- 

 ginal spöts) 



olive brown 



bistre vermicula- 

 ted with black 

 narrowly bor- 

 dered with brow- 

 nish gray 



bistre, vermicu- 

 lated with black 



Onter web of pri- mottled with ru- plain dark brown plain dark brown 

 maries : sty brown. 



^ Journ. f. Ornith. 1904 p. 351. 



