EAST AFRICA AND UGANDA FRANCOLINS 11 
Female . — Much like the female of F. coqui, but the chest 
is greyish and the rest of the under parts are whitish buff 
with narrow black bars on the feathers of the upper part of 
the breast. 
FRANCOLINUS GRANTI 
Francolinus granti, Hartlattb. 
‘ Ogilvie-Grant’s Cat. Birds Brit. Mus.,’ Vol. XXII, page 148. 
* Sharpe’s Hand-List,’ Vol. I, page 23. ‘ Shelley’s Birds of 
Africa,’ Vol. I, page 180. ‘ Reichenow’s Vogel Afrikas,’ Vol. I, 
page 496. 
The distribution of this Bush-Francolin in East Africa and 
Uganda is even more remarkable than the foregoing. It is 
very plentiful throughout the coast-regions, and westward 
to Kilimanjaro, and thence northwards to Ukamba, where 
it stops about Machakos and Kitui. It reappears at Baringo 
and Eastern Kamasia, and there is then another break until 
Kisumu is reached. Then follows a still greater break, as it is 
not again met with until the eastern shores of Lake Albert are 
reached. It is essentially a bird of the bush-country. 
Wherever this bird is found it cannot help but make its 
presence known. In the morning, often throughout the day, 
in the evening, and on moonlight nights, the cock birds shout 
out their harsh defiant call, a challenge to every other cock 
bird within ear-shot. When once heard this call can never 
be mistaken ; there is no other like it in the country. 
During the heat of the day it lies up in small coveys of 
from three to five, often less, but rarely more, under the shade 
of a bush, where it squats very close, and will allow itself 
to be approached within a few feet. 
It would appear to have two breeding seasons, as it un- 
doubtedly breeds on Manda Island, and near Lamu in May, 
June, and July, and I have found a nest containing four 
eggs on the slopes of Ndara in Teita in December. The 
nest was a small depression scratched by the bird, with a few 
dry grass-stems as a lining, at the foot of a small bush. 
The eggs are remarkable for the extreme thickness and 
hardness of the shell. 
Male . — Top of head dark brown with rusty brown tips 
to the feathers ; stripe above and below eye, chin and throat 
