I08 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



visits the open country, preferring near Thayetmyo, where it 

 is specially numerous, the "gravel hills with bamboo-jungle, 

 intermingled with abandoned clearings, in the dense vegeta- 

 tion of which it loves to conceal itself" (Oates). 



B. All the following species (Nos. 4 to 25 inclusive) are char- 

 acterised by having no well-defined row of buff spots on 

 the inner and outer webs of the primary flight feathers, 

 but the feathers of the back and scapulars have white 

 or buff shaft-stripes down the middle. The following 

 species only has the throat black ; in all the rest it is 

 differently coloured. 



iv. Latham's francolin. francolinus lathami. 

 Francolinus lathami, Hartl. J. f. O. 1854, p. 210; Ogilvie- 



Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 139 (1893). 

 Francolinus peli, Temm. Bijdr. tot de Dierk. I. p. 50, pi. 



(i354). 



Adult Male. — General colour above olive-brown ; throat and 

 fore-neck black ; breast black, each feather with a white heart- 

 shaped spot. Total length, 10 inches; wing, 5*6; tail, 27; 

 tarsus, 17. 



Adult Female. — Distinguished from the male by being some- 

 what smaller, and by having the upper-parts faintly and irregu- 

 larly barred with rufous-buff and black, and the chest-feathers 

 margined externally with brown. 



Eange. — West Africa, from the Loango Coast northwards to 

 Senegambia. 



a. The three following species have the breast and flanks 

 whitish-buff, uniformly barred with black. 



V. THE GREY FRANCOLIN. FRANCOLINUS PONDICERIANUS. 



Tetrao pondicerianus, Gmel. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 760 (1788). 

 Francolinus pondicerianus^ Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xi. 



p. 321 (1819); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. 



p. 141 (1893). 



