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skin round the eye, the head, the chin and throat and the 
rudimentary wattles at the angles of the gape are red ; the back 
and sides of the neck blue. 
Length 20 inches, wing 10-8 inches, tail 5 inches, tarsus 
8*6 inches. 
ACRYLLIUM VULTURINUM 
Acryllium vulturinum, Hardw. 
‘ Ogil vie- Grant’s Cat. Birds Brit. Mus.’ Vol. XXII, page 385. 
‘ Sharpe’s Hand-List,’ Vol. I, page 42. ‘ Shelley’s Birds of 
Africa,’ Vol. I, page 183. ‘ Reichenow’s Vogel Afrikas,’ Vol. I, 
page 448. 
The Yult urine Guinea-fowl is essentially a bird of the wilder- 
ness. It is very plentiful in Jubaland and also on the Sabaki 
river, and may often be seen from the railway train near 
Maungu, and between Yoi and Kinani. It is also plentiful on 
the Northern Uaso Nyiro. It may at once be distinguished 
from all other guinea-fowls by its long pin tail. 
Male . — Head and neck naked, with a horseshoe-shaped band 
of velvety reddish-brown feathers round the back of the nape ; 
lower neck, mantle and chest covered with long pointed hackles, 
black with wide white shaft-stripe, and margined with pale 
cobalt blue ; the longer hackles are also more or less minutely 
dotted with white ; lower back, rump, wing, tail-coverts and 
thighs black, dotted with white, and covered with small 
rounded black-edged spots. Breast and belly cobalt-blue, 
black down the centre. Naked parts of head and neck dull 
leaden blue. 
Length 27 inches, wing 12*2 inches, tail 11*8 inches, tarsus 
4*1 inches. 
The female is smaller, and measures 26 inches, wing 12 
inches, tail 10 inches, tarsus 8*8 inches. 
TURNIX LEPURANA 
Turnix lepurana. Smith. 
‘ Ogil vie- Grant’s Cat. Birds Brit. Mus.’ Vol. XXII, page 539. 
* Sharpe’s Hand-List,’ Vol. I, page 48. ‘ Shelley’s Birds of 
Africa,’ Vol. I, page 178. ‘ Reichenow’s Vogel Afrikas,’ Vol. I, 
page 301. 
Smith’s Bustard-Quail, also known as the * Button ’ quail, 
is found throughout East Africa and Uganda, occasionally in 
