G. FRANCOLLN'TJS. 139 



black, with one or more pairs of submarginal white ocelli on each 

 feather; centre of belly and thighs buff; flanks buff, barred with 

 black ; under tail-coverts deep chestnut. Iris dark brown ; bill 

 dark homy brown ; legs and feet yellowish orange. Total length 

 11-6 inches, wing 5-3, tail 2*3, tarsus 1'7. 



Adult female, llesembles the male, but the chin and throat are 

 paler and not spotted with black. Iris dark brown ; bill dark 

 horny above, pale whitish flesh below ; legs and feet yellowish 

 orange. Total length 11 "6 inches, wing 5*3, tail 2-5, tarsus 1"7. 



In j/ci'.nc/er specimens the whole of the underparts are whitish 

 buflf, barred with black. 



Hah. Western and Central India, ranging west to X. Guzerat, 

 north to Hamirpur, and south as far as Karli, W. GJhauts, and 

 Masulipatam, also to Ceylon. 



a. S ad. sk. Gondul, March. Capt. Lloyd [P.]. 



b, c. S ad. sk. Deesa, July, Aug. {E. A. Hume Coll. 



Butler). ' 



d. c? ad.sk. Ahmedabad,Feb. (TT. C. .^ry). Hume Coll. 



e. (J ad. sk. Mt. Aboo, May. Hume Coll. 



/. $ ad. sk. Neemuch, Aug. Major Yerbury [P.]. 



ff. (S ad. St. P^^-^^'- Provinces.] Capt. S. Piuwill [P.J, 



h-n. cJ 2 ad. sk. .Ihansie Dist., May, Aug., Hume Coll. 



Oct. (A. O. H.). 



o. cJ ad. sk. Hammii-pur. Hume Coll. 



p, a. cJ ad. sk. [Behar.l B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



[P.]. 



r-t. S ad. sk. Saugor, July, Aug. Hume Coll. 



u. Ad. sk. Saugor ( W. T. Hooper). India Museum [P.]. 



V. 2 ad. sk. Raipur. Hume Coll. 



w, X. Ad. sk. Khandeish. Tweeddale Coll. 



y, s. iS ad. sk. Khandeish, March {J. David- Hume Coll. 



son). 



a', b'. Ad. sk. Deccan (Lt. Burgess). Gould Coll. 



c', d'. Ad. sk. Deccan (Col. Syhes). India Museum [P.]. 



«'>/'■ d" $ ad.sk. \M'^m\m,i>i^\>t. (E.A.Butler). Hume Coll. 



(/'. Ad. sk. Masulipatam, April (J. E. Hume Coll. 



Honfalall). 



h'. 2 imm. sk. Ceylon, May ( Tl^. V. Legge). Dr. R. B. Shaii* 



[P.]. 

 »'. Ad. skeleton. India. 



Ilyhrid hetn-een Francolinus francolinus and F. pictus. See p, 135 



4. Francolinus lathami. 



Leona Partridge, Lath. Gen. Hist. viii. p. :.'r3 (1823). 



Francolinus latluuni. Hartl. J. f. O. 18")4, p. -'10 [Sierra Leone |, 

 1855, p. 100; id. Oni. W.-Afr. p. l'02 (1857) [Aguapim] ; Gray, 

 List GalliiKe Brit. Mus. p. 55 (18ti7) ; S/iarpe, Ibis, 18G9, p. 387 

 [Fantee] ; C/w/w, Ibis, 1874. p. 71 ; Beic/i. J. f. O. 1877, p. 13 

 [Loango Coast]; Sfiarpe ^- Bourier, Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. iii. p. 79 

 (1878) [Congo R.] ; Bocaqe, Oni. Am/ola. p. 411 (1881) [N. of the 

 Congo K.] ; liiittikofer, Notes Lexjd. Mus. vii. p. 231 (1885) [\V. 

 Liberial, ^-iii. p. 205 (1886); Schaeck; Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. iv. 

 p. 380 0891) ; Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 40. 



