22 EAST AFRICA AND UGANDA FRANCOLINS 
stripes ; tail vermiculated with brown and buff ; chest, breast 
and underparts dark brown with pale buff middles, the feathers 
of the flanks shaded with chestnut. Iris hazel ; bill blackish 
brown ; gape and base of the lower mandible, bare skin of 
the face and upper-throat crimson-red ; rest of the throat 
lemon-yellow ; feet blackish brown. 
Length 17 inches, wing 8*5 inches, tail 8*6 inches, tarsus 
2*5 inches. 
Female. — Similar to the male, but smaller. 
Length 15 inches. 
PTERNISTES CRANCHX 
Pternistes cranchi, Leach. 
‘ Ogil vie- Grant’s Cat. Birds Brit. Mus.,’ Vol. XXII, page 178. 
‘ Sharpe’s Hand-List,’ Vol. I, page 26. ‘ Shelley’s Birds of 
Africa,’ Vol. I, page 179. ‘ Reichenow’s Vogel Afrikas,’ Vol. I, 
page 457. 
The distribution of this fine Bare-throated Francolin is 
rather curious. 
In East Africa it appears to be confined to the Nyando 
Valley, where it is fairly plentiful at Fort Ternan and Muhoroni, 
and again near Kisumu. It reappears in Western Uganda, 
near Lewekula’s, and in Toro where it is the common Francolin 
of the country. It is found in rough broken ground along 
water-courses bordered with bush and scrub. Its call, which 
is harsh and grating, is exactly like that of P. infuscatus. 
Male. — Stripe above the eye and sides of face black, 
narrowly margined with white ; top of the head brown ; 
feathers of the neck, mantle, chest and sides finely mottled 
with black and white ; rest of the upperparts umber-brown 
finely mottled and dotted with black ; breast and abdomen 
like the chest, but each feather widely margined with chestnut ; 
vent and under tail-coverts brownish buff, mottled with black ; 
tail brown faintly dotted with black. Iris brown; bill and 
feet crimson-red ; naked skin of the face and throat also 
crimson-red. 
Length about 14| inches, wing 7*8 inches, tail 8*1 inches, 
tarsus 2*2 inches. 
Female. — Differs from the male in having the feathers of 
