KUNUL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 47. V<> 5. :>.'* 



Wakamba gunbearers called this bird »koari» which no doubt is oiionuitopodir becaiisc 

 one of thc notes of the bird is a sharp »koarrre» which is repeated several times. 



The Bare-throated Francolin is a good runner and if it has time to escape running 

 it prefers to do so, although it is not difficult to flush in high vegetation. 



Francolinus schiitti (Cab.). 



Rchw. I, p. 468. 



Near Escarpment station I shot some specimens of this Francolin in shambas with 

 bush at the edge of the cedar forest. Near Nairobi l finshed a pair of Francolins and 

 shot one of them. To jndge from the colour they belonged to this species but aslcould 

 not recover the shot bird in the high grass, I am not certain about it. This happencd 011 

 grass-steppe but just outside a small forest in which the remaining bird took its refuge. 



Ogilvie Grant 1 enumerates this Francolin among the »West African species» found 

 by the Ruwenzori Expedition. According to Reichenow it is found from Angola to 

 Bukoba and Kilimanjaro. 



Francolinus uluensis (Grant). 



Rchw. I, p. 487. 



The 20 th of March in the morning I saw at a distance two Francolins chasing each 

 other with much noise through the grass not far from Lekiundu river. When I approached 

 I succeeded in flushing one of them, and shot it. It proved to be a male of the present 

 species, which probably here is at, or near its northern boundary line. 



The same species was also shot near Blue Post on the way from Punda Melia 2 /t 

 but this specimen looked somewhat different having a strong rusty tinge all över. This 

 is, however, no doubt only a result of the red Kikuyu clay. 



The now known range of the species appears to be from the northeastern foothills 

 of Kenia (Lekiundu) to the Kilimanjaro district, but in Somaliland it is substituted by the 

 very closely related Francolinus lorti Sharpe which hardly can be regarded to be but a 

 geographic subspecies. 



Coturnix coturnix africana (Tem. Schl.). 



Rchw. I, p. 506. 



Two male specimens shot outside Nairobi in the beginning of January 1911 are very 

 similar to specimens from South Africa. One, a breeding male with strongly swelled tes- 

 tidés is darker than the other which probably is younger, but no doubt also breeding as 

 the testidés measured 18 mm. in length. The black anchor of the throat is much more 

 distinct in the former, the broad white shaft stripes on the flank feathers are bordered 

 with black on both sides and some of the feathers have also in addition to these stripes 

 blackish spöts or bars across the rufous, whereas in the presumably younger male the 



1 Träns. Zool. Soc. Vol. XIX, Pl. 4, p. 258. 



