NEW LOCALITIES FOR HUBBARD’S FRANCOLIN 135 
specimens recorded from Uganda possessed this collar, which 
appears to me to be descriptive of the type. 
NEW LOCALITIES FOR HUBBARD’S FRANCOLIN 
By R. B. Woosnam, F.Z.S. 
On several occasions, when travelling in the Machakos 
District, I had heard what I took to be the call of Hubbard’s 
francolin, and in June last I was fortunate enough to obtain 
several on the lower slopes of the Mua Hills. Mr. S. W. J. 
Scholefield shortly afterwards, at Kitui, killed several specimens 
of a francolin, which from his description must have been 
Hubbard’s francolin, unless of course it was the coqui francolin 
known at present in British East Africa only from the coast 
region. In September I came across Hubbard’s francolin again 
at Fort Hall and on the Tana River, where Mr. McClellan, the 
District Commissioner, and myself shot several one afternoon. 
Up to the present, I believe, Hubbard’s francolin has only 
been recorded in British East Africa from the Rift Valley, 
between the Kedong Valley and Lake Baringo, and in the 
Nyando Valley. 
It is interesting to find it in these new localities, but it is 
not surprising ; for there is no serious barrier between the 
Kedong Valley and Machakos, nor between there and the Tana 
River. 
It would be more interesting to know where the two species 
F. hubbardi and F. coqui meet, and why two such very similar 
birds should not range over the same areas. 
