6. FRANCOLINUS. 159 



a. c? ad. sk. [Central India.] Tweeddale Coll. 



b, c. (S ad. St. liimalaya Mountains. 



d-f. cJ 2 fid. sk, Oudh, L)ec. Hume Coll. 



g. $ ad. sk. Mogul Serai, Oudh, Nov. Hume Coll. 



h, i. cJ $ ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



[C.]. 



k-m. (S ad. sk. Purneah. Capt. S. Pinwill [P.]. 



n, 0. $ ad. sk. Buxa Doars, Jan., Feb. (L. Hume Coll. 



Alandelli). 



p,q- <i 2 ^d. sk. Dacca. Hume Coll. 



r-t. (S 2 ^d. sk. Assam (/. M'Cklland). India Museum [P.]. 



M. (S ad. sk. Gauhati, March. Hume Coll. 



V. (S ad. sk. Dilkooslia, Cachar, April Hume Coll. 



{J. Inc/lis). 



w-y. S 2 ad.sk. Sylhet, Jan., Aug. (/. In- Hume Coll. 



glis). 



26. Francolinus adspersus. (Plate Til.) 



Fraucolinus adspersus, Waterh. in Alexander'' s Exp. ii. p. 267, pi. 

 (1838) ; id. List GaU. B. iii. p. 34 (1844) ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. 

 p. 505 (1846) ; Lciyard, B. S. Afr. p. 2i^9 (1867) [Orange E. and 

 Ovampoland) ; Gray, List Gal/ince Brit. Mm. p. 52 (1867) ; Layard, 

 Ibis, 18l)9, p. .375 [Namaqualand] ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 265, 

 no. 9669 (1870) ; Bocnye, J. Sci.Lisb. v. pp. 42,59 (1874) [Cunene 

 R.] ; id. J. f. O. 1876, p. 305 [Gambos] ; id. Orn. Angola, p. 410 

 (1881); Sharpe, in Layard'.^ B. S. Afr. p. 590 (1884); Schaeck, 

 Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. iv. p. 353 (1891); Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 46. 



Choetopus adspersus, Bonap. C. R. xlii. p. 882 (1850). 



Scleroptera adspersa, Gurney, ed. Anderss. B. Damaral. p. 247 (1872) 

 [Damara- and Great Namaqua-lands, Lake Ngami]. 



Adult male and female. ^Vliole of the upper surface and wings 

 (except the mantle) umber-brown, tincly mottled with dirty white 

 and black ; ear-coverts brown ; lores and space in front of the eyes 

 nearly l)lack ; rest of the sides of the face, superciliary stripes, chin, 

 and throat white, mottled with black. Mantle, neck, chest, and rest 

 of undcrparts narrowly barred with black and wliitc. The male is 

 provided with long sharp spurs. Iris brown ; bill and legs coral- 

 red. Total length 12-6 inches, wing (3-6, tail 3-5, tarsus 1-7. 



Immature birds differ from the adult in having the mantle simi- 

 larly coloured to the rest of the upper parts, some of the scapulars 

 blotched with black at the extremity, and the underparts brownish 

 ■white, finely vermiculated with black, many of the feathers of the 

 breast and belly being somewhat widely barred with white, and 

 those of the sides tipped with the same colour. 



IJab. Western South Africa, from the Orange River to Cunene 

 River, and extending inland to Lake Ngami. 



o. d ad. sk. Humbe, Cunene River Shelley Coll. 



(AncJiieta). 



b. Imm. sk. Damaraland (Capt. Ale.v- Gould Coll. (Type 



ander). of the species.) 



c. Ad. sk. Damaraland. Mrs. Stirling [P.]. 



