16 EAST AFRICA AND UGANDA FRANCOLINS 
the tips. Iris brown ; bill blackish brown ; base of the lower 
mandible yellowish horn-colour ; feet dusky yellow. 
Length 16 inches, wing 7*8 inches, tail 8*5 inches, tarsus 
2 inches. 
Female . — Similar to the male, but smaller. 
Length 14*2 inches, wing 6*5 inches, tail 8*2 inches, tarsus 
1*8 inches. 
FRANCOLINUS KIKUYUENSIS 
Francolinus JciJcuyuensis, Ogilvie-Gkant. 
Ogilvie-Grant, ‘ Ibis,’ 1897, page 258. 6 Sharpe’s Hand-List,’ 
Vol. I, page 24. 6 Reichenow’s Vogel Afrikas,’ Vol. I, page 491. 
So far as is at present known, this Erancolin is confined to 
the higher plateaux west of the Rift Valley. Its specific name 
‘ Kikuyuensis ’ is, I fear, a misnomer for which I must admit 
responsibility. 
The type was obtained on the Uasin-Gishu plateau, but 
the locality was omitted from the label through an oversight, 
and as it was sent home in a box of birds obtained in Kikuyu, 
Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, who described it, not unnaturally inferred 
that it had been obtained somewhere in Kikuyu. 
It frequents the open grassy downs of the Mau, and Uasin- 
Gishu plateaux, at altitudes between 7000 and 9000 feet, and is 
found in small coveys of from four to six. 
It is a close squatter and rises with a whirr and scream 
that are quite startling. In the early morning when the grass 
is wet it is fond of sitting on the top of an ant-hill. 
Male . — Top of the head brown with black middles to the 
feathers, and margined on the sides by a narrow whitish-buff 
band ; sides of the face and neck rust-red ; a band of white, 
black-tipped feathers commences at the base of the upper- 
mandible and passing below the eye surrounds the throat, 
which is rufous-white, edged externally with rust-red ; a small 
patch of pale rufous-white feathers barred with black on the 
fore-neck. General colour of the upperparts brown, blotched 
with black and with buff cross-bars and shaft-stripes ; the 
black markings and buff shaft-streaks being most conspicuous 
on the mantle, scapulars and innermost secondaries. Rest 
