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but the inner webs of the primary llight-featlicrs are brown, wiih 

 longitudinal or transverse bars of rufous and buff; and (this is 

 the chief difference) the feathers of the breast are dark bi-own, 

 narrowly margined all round with ivJu'fe. Male with two pairs 

 of long sharp spurs. Total length, 13-5 inches; wing, 7-3; 

 tail, 3-3; tarsus, 2-3. 



This species has been constantly confounded with its more 

 western ally, F. clappertoni^ from which it is really very distinct. 



Range. — North-east Africa ; Bogosland, Abyssinia, and Shoa. 



.This Francolin is met with at lower elevations than some of 

 the other Abyssinian species, and, according to Mr. Blanford, is 

 commonest in some of the valleys at from 4,000 to 5,000 feet. 



d. In the remaining species of the genus, the inner webs of the 

 primary flight-feathers are uniform dark bt'oivn, some- 

 times slightly dotted with buff towards the marginal 

 extremity. 



XXXV. THE CAPE FRANCOLIN. FRANCOT.INUS CAPENSIS. 



Tetrao capensis, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. pt. ii. p. 759 (1788). 

 Francolinus capensis, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xi. p. -^^-^^i^^ 

 (1819); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 165 



(1893). 

 Fra?icoli?ms claniator, Temm. ; Sharpe, ed. La)ard's B. S. Afr. 

 p. 591 (1884). 

 Adult Male and Female. — General colour above black, each 

 feather with two or three concentric white lines running parallel 

 with the margin ; under-parts very similar to the upper, but 

 with well-defined white shaft-stripes down the middle of the 

 feathers ; throat spotted ivith black. 



Male wnth one or two pairs of rather blunt spurs. Total 

 length, 16 inches; wing, 8-8 ; tail, 4-4; tarsus, 27. 

 Female. — Considerably smaller ; wing, 8 inches. 

 Range. — South Africa ; Cape Colony, extending to the Orange 

 River ; Robben Island [introduced]. 



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