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PHASIANID^. 



s. cJ ad. sk. 

 t. cJ ad. sk. 

 u. 2 imm. sk. 



V, w. ^ ad. sk. 

 X, y. cJ ad. sk. 

 z-b'. c? ad. sk. 



c'. c? ad. sk. 

 d' . 2 imm. sk. 

 e',/'. cJ imm. sk. 



(A h'- d 5 ad. sk. 

 i', k'. (5 ad. sii. 



Cambodia, Sept. 



Cambodia. 



Saigon, April {Conrad). 



Hainan, March (R. Sicinhoe). 

 Canton (Col Tuckett). 

 Amoy, May, July {R. Swin- 



hoe). 

 Fungan, June (Col. Tuckett). 

 Fokien, Oct. (K. Sivinhoe). 

 China. 



Mauritius (Beusher). 

 Mauritius, Oct. 



I'. S ad. skeleton. China. 



M. E. Pierre [P.]. 

 M. Mouhot [C.]. 

 Dr. Pt. B. Sharpe 



[P.J. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Hume & Tweeddale 



CoUs. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 J. R. Reeves, Esq, 



[P.]. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Gould & Zool. See. 



Colls. 

 J. R. Reeves, Esq. 



[P.]. 



3. Francolinus pictus. 



Pintado Partridge, var. A, Lath. Gen. fiiyn., Snppl. i. p. 212 (1787). 



Perdix picta, Jard. l<f Selb. III. Orn. pi. 50 ; Jard. Nat. Lib., Orn. iv. 

 p. 10.3, pi. iii. (1834). 



Perdix hepburnii,/. E. Graij, III. Ind. Zool. i. pi. r5. fig. 1 (1830-32). 



PerdLx hephurnii, var. pallida, J. E. Gray, III. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 55. 

 tig. 2 (1830-32). 



Francolinus pictus, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. -jOS (1846) ; id. List 

 Gall. B. iii. p. 36 (1844) ; Bh/th, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 251 

 (1849) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 561 (1863) ; Gray, List Gallince Brit. 

 Mus. p. 54 (1867) ; Blanf. J. A. 8. Beny. xxxvi. p. 200 (1867) 

 [Guzerat & Kutch] ; Bh/th, Ibis, 1867, pp. 157, 158: Bearan, 

 Ibis, 1868, p. 383 [Gwalior. N.W. Provinces] ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 

 ii. p. 266, no. 9682 (1870) ; Boldsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 469 [Ceylon] ; 

 Hume, A'^ests^ Egys Ind. B. p. 538 (1873) ; Lloyd, Ibis, 1873, "p. 415 

 [Kattiawar] ; Butler, Sir. F. iv. p. 6 (1876) [Aboo] ; Fairbank, 

 Str. F. iv. p. 262 (1876) [Deccan] ; Butler, Str. F. v. p. 211 (1877) 

 [Aboo, N. Guzerat] ; Ball, Str. F. v. p. 419 (1877) [Mahanadi 

 & Godaveri rivers j ; Davidson i.^- Wenden, Str. F. vii. p. 87 

 (1878) [Deccan] ; Ball, Str. F. vii. p. 225 (1878) [Raipur] ; Hmne 

 ^ Marshall, Game B. India, ii. p. 19, pi. (1879) ; Butler, Cat. B. 

 Sind, p. 54 (1879) : Wardlaw Ra?nsai/, Ibis, 1880, p. 70 ; Lec/ye, B. 

 Ceylon, iii. p. 744 (1880) ; Butler, Cat. B. S. Bombay, p. 68 (1880) ; 

 Vidal, Str. F. x. p. 160 (1881) [Karli, W. Ghauts] ; Davidson, 

 Str. F. X. p. 316 (1882) [W. Khandeish] ; Swinhoe ^ Barnes, Ibis, 

 1885, p. 131 [Central India] ; Macepryor, Str. F. x. p. 440 (1887) 

 [Deccan & S. Mahratta] ; Taylor^ Str. F. x. p. 530 (1887) [not 

 known in Orissa] ; Oates, ed. Hume's Nests S/- Eqqs, iii. p. 430 

 (1890); Schaeck.' Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr.'w. p. 303 (l891) ; Grant, 

 Ibis, 1892, p. 40. 



Adult male. Upper parts, wings, and tail very similar to those of 

 F. francolinus, but there is no trace of a chestnut collar, and the 

 feathers of the lower part of the neck, like those of the upper back, 

 are black with siibmarginal pairs of white oceUi. The sides of the 

 head and forehead dull rust-red ; chin and throat paler and more or 

 less spotted with black ; feathers surrounding the upper parts of 

 the neck rufous buff, with black shaft-stripes. Rest of underparts 



