PHASIANID^ FEANCOLINUS 197 



a-. Throat wjiite, more or less spotted with 

 black ; primaries uniform brown on the 



inner web F. africanus, ^. 201. 



V. Throat white or whitish surrounded by a 



line of mottled black and white feathers. 



a'. Black and white superciliary stripes 



coalescing on the nape of the neck ; 



primaries chiefly rufous F. levaillanti, p. 203. 



V. Black and white superciliary stripes not 



meeting on the nape, but curving round 



towards the throat. 



a*. Lower breast and belly rich buff, 



streaked and mottled with chestnut 



black and white F. gariejpensis, -p. 205 . 



b*. Lower breast and belly pale buff, 



almost immaculate F. jiigularis, p. 207. 



c'. Lower breast and belly whitish with 



more or less distinct V-shaped bars ... F. shelleyi, p. 208. 

 B. Xo white or other marked shaft stripes on the 

 back. 



a. Beneath nanowly transversely barred with black 



and white F. adsjoersus, -p. 209. 



h. Striped or mottled, not barred beneath. 



a'. Back and scapulars blackish-brown, the 

 feathers margined and vermiculated with 



white F. capensis, p. 210. 



V. Back and scapulars olive-brown, finely vermi- 

 culated with black F. natalensis, p. 212. 



647. Francolinus coqui. Coqui. 



Perdix coqui. Smith, Rejp. Exped. C. AJr. p. 55 (1836). 



Francolinus subtorquatus, Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr. Aves, pi. 15 (1838) ; 

 aurney. Ibis, 1860, p. 215 [Natal] ; id. P. Z. S. 1864, pp. 3, 6 [Oka- 

 vango Biver] ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 273 (1867) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1868, 

 p. 467 [Limpopo] ; Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 386 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, 

 p. 85; Ay res. Ibis, 1880, p. 110; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 361, [Bula- 

 wayo] ; Sharpe ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 600 (1884) ; Ayres, Ibis, 

 1884, p. 232 ; W. Ayres, Ibis, 1887, p. 61 ; Nicolls ^- Eglington, 

 Sportsm. S. Ajfr. p. 103 (1892) ; Bryden, Gun and Camera, pp. 282> 

 471 (1893) ; Bendall, Ibis, 1896, p. 175. 



Scleroptera subtorquata, Gurney, in Anderason's B. Damaraland, 

 p. 246 (1872). 



Francolinus schlegeli {nee Heugl.), Sharpe ed. Layard's B. 8. Afr. 

 p. 602 (1884). 



FranooUnus coqui, Schaeok, Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. iv, p. 349 (1891) ; 

 Grant, Cat. B. M. xxii, p. 143 (1893) ; id. Game Bds. i,p. Ill (1896) ; 



