136 PHASIANID^. 



parts of the throat are thickly spotted with black ; there is also a 

 black band from the lores runinug through the e)'e above the ear- 

 coverts, and the chest is mostly black ; the belly is pale rufous, 

 edged with bufE. 



a. <S ad. sk. Deesa, Aug. [E. A. Butler^. Hume Coll. 



(Type of F. ititermedius.) 



2.-Francoli]ius cMnensis. 



Le Perdrix de la Chine, Briss. Orn. i. p. 234, pi. 28 a. fig. 1 (1760). 

 Tetrao cliinensis, Osbeck, Voy. en Chine, ii. p. 326 (1771) ; P. L. S. 



Midi. S. N. Siqjpl. p. 129 (1776). 

 La Perdrix perlee, Buffim, Hist. Nat. ii. p. 446 (1771). 

 Francolin de I'Isle de France, Soiinerat, Voy. aiuv Indes, ii. p. 166, 



pi. 97 (1782). 

 Pintado Partridge, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 761 (1783) ; id. Gen. Hist. 



viii. p. 274 (1823). 

 Pearled Partridge, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 772 (1783) ; id. Gen. Hist. 



viii. p. 276 (182:3). 

 Tetrao pintadeanus, Scop. Del. Flor. et Faun. pt. ii. p. 93 (1786). 

 Tetrao perlatus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. pt. ii. p. 758 (1788). 

 Tetrao madagascariensis, Gmel. (nee Scop.) S. N. i. p. 756 (1788). 

 Perdix perlata, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 648 (1790) ; Bonn. Tabl. Encycl. 



Meth. i. p. 213 (1790) ; Temm. Pig. et Gal. iii'. pp. .326, 721 (1815) 



[part.] ; Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxv. p. 238 (1817) ; id. Gal. 



Ois. ii. pp. 41, 213 (1825) ; Less. Traite Orn. p. .505 (1831). 

 Perdix madagascariensis, Bonn. Tabl. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 214, pi. 95. 



fig. 3 (1790). 

 Francolinus perlatus, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xi. p. 325 (1819) ; 



Strickl. P. Z. S. 1842, p. 107 ; Gray, List Gall. B. iii. p. 36 (1844) ; 



id. Gen. B. iii. p. 505 (1846) ; Swinkoe, Ibis, 1860, p. 63 [Amoy], 



1861, p. 50 [Hongkong], 1862, p. 259 [Foochow] ; Blyth, Ibis, 1862, 



p. 387 ; Maillard, Notes He Reunion, p. 163 (1862) ; id. Ibis, 1863, 



p. 104 ; Gray, List Gallina Brit. Mus. p. 53 (1867) ; Sivinhoe, Ibis, 



1867, p. 406 [Amoy] ; Anders. Zool. E.vijed. W. Yunnan, Aves, 



p. 672 (1878) [Bhamo]. 

 Perdix (Francolinus) maculatus, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 2 (1831) ; id. 



Fasc. B. China, pi. 7 (1871). 

 Perdix phayrei, Blyth, J. A. S. Beny. xii. p. 1011 (1843). 

 Perdix siueusis, Spaloiosk. Viiy. t. 31. 

 Francolinus sinensis, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 251 (1849) ; 



Gould, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 151 [Siam] ; Swinkoe, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 307 



[S. China] ; id. Ibis, 1870, p. .3.59 [Is. of Hainan] ; id. P. Z. S. 



1871, ]). 400 [Canton to Amov] ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1875, 



p. 350 [Karen-nee] ; id. Ibis, 1877, p. 468. 

 Francolinus pintadeus, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 2.50 (1849). 

 Francolinus phayrei, Bh/th, J. A. S. Betiy. xxiv. p. 480 (1855) ; 



Blanford, Ibis, 1870, pp. 463, 409 [Irrawaddy Valley] ; Blyth (5r 

 IVaid. Mamm. 8f B. Burma, p. 149 '"(1875). 

 Francolinus madagascariensis, Hartl. Orn. Beitr. F. Madag. p. 69 



(1861) ; Netvton, Ibis, 1861, p. 274 [Mauritius] ; Hartl. Voy. 



Maday. p. 280 (1877). 

 Francolinus pictus, Schomburgh, Ibis, 1864, p. 263 [Siam]. 

 Francolinus pintadeanus. Gray, List Birds, pt. v. Gall. p. 54 (1867) ; 



id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 266, no. 9683 (1870) ; Schaeck, Mim. Soc. 



Zool. Fr. iv. p. 305 (1891). 

 Francolinus chinensis. Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 266, no. 9681 (1870) 



id. Fasc. B. Chijia, p. 6 (1871) ; Hume, Nests ^ Eggs Ind. B 



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