. A hand-book to the game-birds . ca ; Wembaere Steppes, Ussambiro,and Unyoro, Nassa district, Victoria Nyanza. Very few examples of this remarkably fine Bare-throatedFrancolin have as yet been obtained, and I have only recentlybeen able to examine perfect specimens, though I had seen theheads and necks of two which were brought from British Museum, however, has recently acquired threespecimens from Nassa, presented by the Rev. G. Hubbard. B. Feathers of the back a?id scapulars with white shaft-stripes. Vin. grays BARE-THROATED FRANCOLIN. PTERNISTESLEUCOSCEPUS. Perdix riibricollis,
. A hand-book to the game-birds . ca ; Wembaere Steppes, Ussambiro,and Unyoro, Nassa district, Victoria Nyanza. Very few examples of this remarkably fine Bare-throatedFrancolin have as yet been obtained, and I have only recentlybeen able to examine perfect specimens, though I had seen theheads and necks of two which were brought from British Museum, however, has recently acquired threespecimens from Nassa, presented by the Rev. G. Hubbard. B. Feathers of the back a?id scapulars with white shaft-stripes. Vin. grays BARE-THROATED FRANCOLIN. PTERNISTESLEUCOSCEPUS. Perdix riibricollis, Cretzschm. {?iec Gmel.), Riipp. Atl. p. 44, pi. 30(1826).Frajicolinus leucoscepus. Gray, List Gallinae Brit. Mus. p. 48 (1867).Ptertiistes rubricollis, Blanf. Geol. and Zool. Abyss, p. 426 (1870).Pter?iistes leucoscepiis, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 181, pi. viii. fig. I (1893).Adult Male and Female.—General colour above brown ; feathersQf the chest and breast white, with dull brown margins ■ those PLATE XI^. %. REICHENOWS BARE - THROATED FRANC OLIN, THE LONG-BILLED FRANCOLINS. I41 of the belly, sides, and flanks similar, but with dull chestnutmargins ; bill dusky; naked skin round eye and on throatorange-red, shading into yellow ; feet dusky-red. Male,—With a pair of sharp spurs, sometimes supplementedby a second blunt pair. Total length, 15 inches; wing, 8-i ;tail, 3*6 ; tarsus, 2 5. 7^^;;/rt/(?.—Soniewhat smaller and devoid of spurs. Range.—North-east Africa; Bogosland, Abyssinia, Shoa, andNorth Somali-land. IX. CABANIS BARE-THROATED FRANCOLIN. PTERNISTESINFUSCATUS. Pternistes infuscatus, Cabanis, J. f. O. 1868, p. 413, and inV. d. Deckens Reis. iii. p. 44, pi. 14 (1869); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 182, pi. viii. fig. 2(1893)-Adult Male and Female.—Like P. hucoscepus^ but distinguishedby having the feathers of the chest brow?t, shading into chest-nut towards the base, and each with iiarroiv white shaft-stripesforming a triangular wh
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