I08 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



visits the open country, preferring near Thayetmyo, where it 

 is specially numerous, the "gravel hills with bamboo-jungle, 

 intermingled with abandoned clearings, in the dense vegeta- 

 tion of which it loves to conceal itself" {Oates). 



B. All the following species (Nos. 4 to 25 inclusive) are char- 

 acterised by having no well-defined row of buff spots on 

 the inner and outer webs of the primary flight feathers^ 

 but the feathers of the back and scapulars have white 

 or buff shaft-stripes down the middle. The following 

 species only has the throat black ; in all the rest it is 

 differ e7itly coloured. 



IV. Latham's francolin. francolinus lathaml 

 Fra?icolinu5 lathami, Harll. J. f. O. 1854, p. 210; Ogilvie- 



Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 139 (1893). 

 Francolifius peli, Temm. Bijdr. tot de Dierk. I. p. 50, pi. 



(1854). 



Adult Male. — General colour above olive-brown ; throat and 

 fore-neck black ; breast black, each feather with a white heart- 

 shaped spot. Total length, 10 inches; wing, 5*6; tail, 27; 

 tarsus, 17. 



Adult Female. — Distinguished from the male by being some- 

 what smaller, and by having the upper-parts faintly and irregu- 

 larly barred with rufous-buff and black, and the chest-feathers 

 margined externally with brown. 



Eange. — West Africa, from the Loango Coast northwards to 

 Senegambia. 



a. The three following species have the breast and flanks 

 zvhitish-buff, tmiformly barred ivith black. 



v. the grey francolin. francoltnus pondicerianus. 

 Tetrao pondicerianus, Gmel. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 760 (1788). 

 Francolinus pondicenanus, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xi. 



p. 321 (1819); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. 



p. 141 (1893). 



