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Tetrao pondiceriamis, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 760 (1788). 



Ferdix po7idiceriana, Temm. Pig. et Gall, iii, pp. 332^ 722 

 (1815). 



Francolinus pondiceriamis, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xi. 

 p. 321 (1819). 



Ortygornis pondiceriana, Hume^ Nests & Eggs, p. 542 

 (1873). 



Perdix ponticeriana, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 649 (1790) ; 

 Temm. PI. Col. v. pi. 32 (1823). 



Francolinus pionticerianus, Gray, List Gall. B. iii. p. 35 

 (1844). 



Ortygornis ponticeriana, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 569 (1863) ; 

 Hume & Marsh. Game B. Ind. ii. p. 51, pi. (1879). 



Perdix orientalis. Gray, 111. Ind, Zool. pi. 56. fig. 2 

 (1830-32). 



Hab. India, Ceylon, Afghanistan and Beluchistan ; Masca- 

 renhas Is. (introduced). 



6. Francolinus coqui. 



Perdix coqui, Smith, Rep. Exp. Centr. Afr. p. 55 (1836). 



Francolinus coqui, Bohm, J. f. O. 1882, p. 194, 



Francolinus subtorquatus. Smith, 111. Zool. S. Afr. pi. 15 

 (1838). 



Clicptopus subtorquatus, Bouap. C. R. xlii. p. 882 (1856). 



Scleroptera subtorquata, Gurney, in Anderss. B. Damaral. 

 p. 246 (1872). 



Francolinus semitorquatus, Ayres, Ibis, 1880, p. 110. 



Francolinus schlegeli, Bocage (nee Heugl.) Orn. Angola, 

 p. 407 (1881). 



Francolinus stuhlmanni, Reich. J. f. O. 1889, p. 270. 



Hab. East, South, and South-west Africa. 



7. Francolinus schlegeli. 



Francolinus schlegelii, Heugl. J. f. O. 1863, p. 275 ; Heugl. 

 Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 898, pi. xxx. (1873). 



Hab. Bongo, Equatorial Africa. 



In Captain Shelley's collection there are two female 

 specimens, obtained by him at Accra in 1872 and provision- 

 ally named Francolinus buckleyi, which may possibly belong 



