35. THE CHINESE FRANCOLIN. 



Francolinus chinensis, (Osbeck). 



No chestnut on the hindneck. 



Sides of the head with dark bands, one 



over the eye, and one below the 



white of the face. 



MALE : — Lower plumage spotted. 

 FEMALE : — Lower plumage barred. 



Vernacular Name -.—Hka, Burmese. 



The Chinese Francohn abounds over a 

 great portion of the Province of Burma 

 and the Shan States. Its western limit 

 is probably the Irrawaddy river, for I do 

 not remember to have seen or heard it 

 west of that river, except near its banks 

 — as at Thayetmyo, for instance. The 

 southern limit of the distribution of this 

 Francolin is well defined in the plains, 

 being coincident with the Hne which 

 separates the dry and wet zones of 

 Burma, and is a line drawn approximately 

 from Prome to a point about midway 

 between Yemethin and Pyinmana, and 

 produced to the adjacent hills. Along 

 this range and its ramifications this species 

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