10 EAST AFRICA AND UGANDA FRANCOLINS 
above the eye and passing down the side of the neck ; a 
second black line, commencing in front of the eye, passes 
along the side of the throat, and completely circumscribes it. 
Neck and chest dull chestnut mixed with grey and with 
white shafts ; rest of the underparts grey with the bars and 
markings less regular. 
FRANCOLINUS HUBBARDI (Plate I.) 
Francolinus hubbardi, Ogilvie-Grant. 
Ogilvie-Grant, 4 Ibis,’ 1895, page 378. 4 Sharpe’s Hand-List,’ 
Vol. I, page 23. 4 Shelley’s Birds of Africa,’ Vol. I, page 180. 
4 Beichenow’s Vogel Afrikas,’ Vol. I, page 495. 
The type of this Francolin was obtained by the late Rev. 
E. H. Hubbard of the Church Missionary Society at Nassa on 
Speke Gulf, Victoria Nyanza. 
In British East Africa this little Francolin is, so far as 
we at present know, confined to the Rift Valley between the 
Kedong Valley and Baringo, and also the Nyando Valley 
between Muhoroni and the Kibigori River. 
It is usually found in small coveys of from four to six, is a 
close squatter and difficult to flush. If surprised on open bare 
ground it will run off in a crouching attitude to the nearest 
patch of covert and there squat rather than take wing. When 
flushed and carefully marked down it is even more difficult 
to make it rise again without the aid of a dog, or several 
beaters in close formation to quarter the ground thoroughly. 
Its shrill call is heard in the early morning and again in the 
evening, but it is difficult to locate in the open country in 
which the bird is generally found. 
Male . — Top of head dark brown with greyish brown edges 
to the feathers ; sides of face, neck and throat buff ; breast 
and collar round the back of the neck white deeply barred 
with black ; underparts very pale buff ; under tail-coverts 
darker ; upperparts a mixture of very dark brown and grey, 
with huffy white shafts to the feathers, and irregularly barred 
with dark buff ; tail dark brown barred with dark buffi 
Iris brown; bill brown, gape and lower mandible yellow; 
feet yellow. 
Length 11 J to 12 inches, wing 6 inches, tail 2J inches, 
tarsus 1J inches. 
