468 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on 
[I found the African Painted Sand-Grouse on the edge of 
the scrub near the river. I never noticed it south of Renk 
or north of Ed-Duem.— E. M. H.] 
207. Francolinus gedgii. 
Francolinus gedgil Grant; Grant^ Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. 
p. 163 (1893). 
Francolinus clappertoni, Reich. Vog. Afr. i. p. 480 (1901) 
[part., Lado, Emin']. 
a,b. S '^ ' 20 miles N. of Fashoda, 16th April. Nos. 
365, 366. 
Iris hazel ; bill blackish horn- coloured, red at the base ; 
bare skin surrounding eye red ; legs purplish brown in 
front, red behind, paler in the female. 
[Only one party of Gedge^s Francolin was seen, near 
Fashoda.— B. M. H.] 
The type of this species, an adult male, was obtained by 
Mr. E. Gedge on the Elgon Plains in 1890. It was not 
until last year that a female was shot by Capt. H. Bray at 
the junction of the Sobat Biver with the White Nile, and 
forwarded to the Museum. Lastly, Mr. Hawker secured a 
fine adult pair in freshly-moulted plumage a little further 
north. 
The three birds from Fashoda and the mouth of the Sobat 
resemble one another and differ slightly from the type of 
F. gedgii in having the general colour of the lower back and 
rump greyish brown instead of dull olive-brown ; the white 
margins to the feathers of the upper parts, which are 
confined to the sides of the feathers in the type, are some- 
times almost confluent round the tip in the White Nile 
birds, which in this respect approach the allied F. clappertoni ; 
the under-parts are nearly white, faintly tinged with buff 
on the breast only. 
The differences are, however, very slight and may be 
individual ; in any case, without more material it would be 
unsafe to separate the birds. 
Fashoda is probably the northern limit of this species, its 
place being taken in Kordofan by the allied F. clappertoni. 
I find that the two males procured by Dr. Ansorge in 
