218 PHASIANID^ PTERNISTBS 



Shelley, Ills, 1882, p. 360 ; ScJiaecJc, Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. iv, p. 327 

 (1891). 

 Pternistes swainsoni, Gurneij, in Andersson's B. Damaral. p. 244 

 (1872) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 687 (1884) ; Ayres, Ibis, 

 1886, p. 292 ; Nicolls and Eglington, Sportsm. S. Afr. p. 102 (1892) 

 Bryden, Gun and Camera, p. 471 (1893) ; Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 54 

 id. Cat. B. M. xxii, p. 179 (1893) ; Fled; Journ. Ornith. 1894, p. 391 

 Grant, Game Birds, i, p. 139 (1896) ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 179 

 (1896) ; Marshall, Ibis, 1900, pp. 262, 270 ; Alexander, Ibis, 1900, 

 p. 445 ; Beichenoiu, Vog. Afr. i, p. 456 (1901). 



Description. Adult Male. — General colour above umber-brown, 

 most of the feathers centred and mottled with darker ; primaries 

 plain brown ; feathers round the eye brown edged with grey ; ear- 



PiG. 66. — Head of Pternistes swainsoni. x \\ 



coverts grey ; round the neck a somewhat ill-defined collar of 

 mottled black and white feathers ; below greyish-brown, with dark 

 brown shaft-marks ; the feathers on the abdomen and flanks mostly 

 margined with rich chestnut. 



Iris brown, bare skin round the eye and on the throat 

 vermilion, the lower mandible also red, rather paler towards the tip, 

 upper mandible brown, except the nasal operculum, which is red ; 

 legs and feet black, with a reddish tinge ; tarsus with a strong and 

 sharp spur, and usually a second rudimentary one higher up. 



