PREFACE. 



The name of my colleague, Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, is now so well 

 known as an authority on the Game-Birds that very few remarks 

 are necessary to introduce him to my readers. The work is 

 founded on his volume of the " Catalogue of Birds in the British 

 Museum," where the student will find detailed the material, on 

 which he has grounded the present monographic review. The 

 aim of the Author has been to provide such a " Hand-book " 

 as may be useful to sportsmen in every part of the world, and 

 the present volume will prove of service to travellers in Africa 

 as it gives a diagnosis, whereby every species of Francolin, 

 known up to the present time, may be distinguished. 



The second volume will deal with the Pheasants, American 

 Partridges, Megapodes, Curassows, and Hemipodes, in the 

 same concise manner, and will, I believe, be found of equal 

 service to the sportsman and naturalist. 



R. BOWDLER SHARPE. 



