EAST AFRICA AND UGANDA FRANCOLINS 15 
Female . — Differs from the male in having the back, rump 
and upper tail-coverts barred with buff, and the wing-coverts 
spotted with the same colour. 
Length 11 inches, wing 5*9 inches, tail 2*5 inches, tarsus 
1*5 inches. 
FRANCOLINUS ELGONENSIS 
Francolinus elgonensis, Ogilvie-Grant. 
‘ Ogilvie-Grant’s Cat. Birds Brit. Mus.,’ Vol. XXII, page 157, 
Plate V. ‘ Sharpe’s Hand-List,’ Vol. I, page 24. ‘ Shelley’s 
Birds of Africa,’ Vol. I, page 181. ‘ Reichenow’s Vogel Afrikas,’ 
Vol. I, page 491. 
The type of this Erancolin was obtained by myself on the 
north side of Mount Elgon at an altitude of 11,000 feet in 
February 1890. It was one of a small covey of four. During a 
recent tour round Mount Kenya, in August, I saw a Francolin 
— a single bird — at an altitude of about 10,000 feet on the 
north side of the mountain, but was unable to identify it. 
I have, however, reason to believe that it belonged to this 
species, as ten days later I obtained three, a male and two 
females, out of a covey of six, on the Aberdare Range at an 
altitude of about 11,000 feet. 
It is found on the open rolling grassy downs, and if any- 
thing is a closer squatter than most of the open-country 
Francolins. 
Male. — Top of head black, each feather margined with 
pale rusty brown ; back of the neck chestnut, with a black 
spot at the tip of each feather ; back and scapulars a mixture 
of black and dark brown, barred with pale rusty brown and 
buff, and with buff shaft-stripes ; sides of the face and neck buff, 
divided from the top of the head, and also from the throat, 
by mixed black and white lines ; throat buffy white bordered 
by a circular line of black spots ; lower throat and chest pale 
chestnut, the feathers tipped with one or two black spots ; 
breast buff, barred with very dark brown ; flanks chestnut, 
barred with dark brown, and with narrow shaft-stripes of 
buff ; abdomen and rest of the underparts brownish grey, closely 
barred with dark brown. Primaries and inner secondaries 
light chestnut barred and mottled with dark brown towards 
