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A white patch on the sides of the face from the gape half- 

 way clown the sides of the naked throat, but not surrounding 

 it. Lower parts streaked blackish-brown and white in 

 about equal parts. 



Distr. Angola. 



Pternistes afer leucopar^us. 



Francolinus {Pternistes) leucopareus Fischer & Reichenow, 

 Journ. Ornith. 1884, p. 263: Kipi, at mouth of Tana river. 



Pternistes nudicoUis melanogaster Neumann, Journ. 

 Ornith. 1898, p. 299 : Tanga. 



White ring as in the typical form, lower breast and belly 

 black, only the flanks streaked. 



Distr. East Africa from the Tana river southwards 

 through the inland and western portion of Tanganyika 

 Territory to Nyasaland, there chiefly met with at the higher 

 elevations. 



Pternistes afer swynnertoni, subsp. n. 



Resembling P. a. leucoparceus, but the white on the sides 

 of the head much more extensive, forming a broad ring 

 round the naked throat-patch and extending over the fore- 

 head and supercilium, and in older birds almost meeting 

 behind on the nape of the neck. 



Ti/pe. A male from the Chirinda forest in Gazaland, 

 collected by C. F. M. Swynnerton (B.M. Reg. No. 1910. 7. 1.6) . 



Distr. Eastern Rhodesia and the neighbouring part of 

 Portuguese East Africa, where it was collected by Claude 

 Grant at Beira and Coguno and was identified by myself as 

 P. humholti ('Ibis,' 1912, p. 43). 



Pternistes afer krebsi. 



Pternistes afer krebsi Neumann, Journ. Ornith. 1920, 

 p. 78 : KafFraria in eastern Cape Province. 



Pternistes nudicoUis auct., nee Bodd. 



Feathers at the sides of the face dusky or blackish, 

 posteriorly speckled with white, but no white ring round the 

 naked throat-patch. Belly striped with dusky brown and 

 white. 



