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I shot had a fully formed egg — unfortunately broken by the 
shot — in the oviduct. The species was subsequently met with 
on a grassy plain near Kitotos Village in Southern Kavirondo, 
in May 1901. 
Mr. A. B. Percival obtained one near the race-course at 
Nairobi. When flushed it rarely flies more than forty or 
fifty yards, but it is exceedingly difficult to make it rise a 
second time, even with the assistance of beaters, and almost 
impossible when alone. 
Male. — Upper-parts blackish-brown washed with slate, 
except the wing-coverts, scapulars, upper tail-coverts, sides 
and flanks, which are bright chestnut, especially the outer 
wing-coverts, with a slaty-grey shaft-stripe down each 
feather ; the middle of the back blotched with black ; a 
white band from the nostril to the eye ; chin and throat black, 
a white band edged with black on either side ; fore-part of 
the throat white edged with black ; rest of under-parts very 
dark slate-grey. 
Length 5*2 inches (dried skin), wing 2*9 — 3 inches, tail 
1*1 inches, tarsus 0-8 inch. 
Female. — Upper surface brown barred with black, most of 
the feathers with a pale buff or white shaft-stripe. Forehead, 
stripe over the eye and cheeks rufous-buff, chin and throat 
and fore-part of the neck white, shading into rufous buff, 
rest of the under-parts buff, paler towards the middle of the 
breast and belly ; chest, sides, and flanks barred with blackish 
brown. 
PTILOPACHYS FUSCUS 
Ptilopachys fuscus, Vieill. 
‘ Ogilvie-Grant’s Cat. Bird 3 Brit. Mns.’ Vol. XXII, page 255. 
* Sharpe’s Hand-List,’ Vol. I, page 32. ‘ Shelley’s Birds of 
Africa,’ Vol. I, page 182. ‘ Reichenow’s Vogel Afrikas,’ Vol. I, 
page 500. 
This small Hill-Francolin, generally known as the Stone- 
Pheasant, appears to be very local, though fairly plentiful 
where found. 
Colonel Delme Radcliffe obtained it in some hills between 
Nimuli and Gondokoro on the Nile, and I found it in the 
