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Lytton, E. MarsHj Capt. A. Maxwell, Colonel Mockler- 

 Ferryman, Dr. A. S. Morgan, Kev. J. Penrose, C. Eussell, 

 M. C. C. Seton, C. Stirling, Prof. J. A. Thomson, M. S. 

 TuRTON, A. White. 



Professor Neumann described the following new species 

 and subspecies of African birds : — 



Francolinus whytei, sp. n. 



Francolinus shelleyi, Shelley (nee Grant), Ibis, 1897, 

 p. 552. 



Nearly adult female. Upperparts similar to those of reddish 

 examples of F. shelleyi. A large white patch between the 

 bill and the eye ; eyebrow, sides of the neck, and lower 

 throat pale ochre-yellow; chin and upper throat lighter, but 

 not pure white ; a line of well-defined black spots commencing 

 at the base of the bill, passing below the eye, down the sides 

 of the neck, and bordering the throat : top of the head 

 brown, also encircled by black spots. Upper breast orange- 

 brown, the lower portion of the feathers with indistinct 

 black bars and sometimes with a broad grey apical band; 

 lower breast pale yellowish, with black -^-like markings, 

 narrower tban in F. shelleyi. Belly vermiculated or very 

 indistinctly barred with grey and black. Under tail-coverts 

 barred with black and yellowish-white. Wing 162 mm. 



Hab. Nyika Plateau, west of Lake Nyasa, between 7000 

 and 8000 ft. 



Type in the British Museum : $ . vi. 96. A Whyte 

 coll. 



Obs. This new Francolin may be at once distinguished 

 from F. gariepensis, F. levaillanti, F. shelleyi, &c., by the 

 entire absence of white on the sides of the neck, and from 

 F. shelleyi by the yellowish-buff (not white) throat. It is a 

 mountain form, and Mr. Whyte remarks on the label that it 

 is " common on the bare ridges, where the grass is very 

 short, and that it does not descend to the tall grass or forest- 

 country .'' 



