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shot when the young sportsman becomes used to its sudden 

 flush, and his elephant ceases to start at the sound. If missed, 

 it does not fly far, but it is ahnost impossible to force it to take 

 wing again ; and a winged bird runs at such a rate, doubling 

 and skulking in the covert, that without good dogs it is hope- 

 less to search for it." 



Like the Grey Partridge, the " Kyah " is a very pugnacious 

 bird. A writer in the " Bengal Sporting Magazine " says that 

 almost every one examined will be found scarred and marked 

 with wounds from fighting. 



Nest — Well constructed, of grass, placed in a depression on 

 the ground. 



Eggs. — Said to be ten to fifteen in number ; broad ovals, 

 pointed at the smaller end ; brownish-buff, finely speckled with 

 purplish-brown at the larger end. Average measurements, i '45 

 by I '2 inch. 



C. All the remaining species of the genus are characterised 

 by having no rows of buff spots on the primary flight- 

 feathers and the feathers of the upper-parts devoid of 

 white or buff shaft-streaks. In F. erckeli only, the last 

 species of this group, a few of the outer scapulars have 

 buff shafts. 



XXVn. THE CLOSE-BARRED FRANCOLIN. FRANCOLINUS 

 ADSPERSUS. 



Francolinus adspersus, Walerhouse, in Alexander's Exp. ii. p. 



267, pi. [immature bird] (1838); Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 



410 (1881) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 159 



pi. vii. (1893). 

 Sckroptera adspersa, Gurney, ed. Andersson's B. Damaral. p. 



247 (1872). 

 Adult Male and Female. —Above umber-brown, finely mottled 

 with dirty white and black ; mantle and u?ider-parts narrowly 

 barred ivith black and ivhite. Easily distinguished by this 



