DOUBLE-SPURRED FRANCOLIN. 



Ckcetopus Adansonii, SWAINS. 



Feathers of the body beneath white on the sides, black varied 

 with white down the middle, and with a rufous stripe on 

 each lateral margin : crown brown, immaculate, margined , 

 by black and white lines ; male with two spurs on the tarsus. 



Perdix Adansonii, Tern. Hist. Nat. Gallin, iii. p. 305. 717 

 Perdix bicalcarata ? Auctorum. 



WE have been told that this species (of which the 

 only specimens we have yet seen are from Senegal) 

 has been mistaken, by the London ornithologists, 

 for the C. Clappertonii^ which, if the figure in the Atlas 

 of M. RiippeU be correct, is a very different species. 

 Whether it is the Perdix bicalcarata of Linnaean 

 writers cannot possibly be made out, as their de- 

 scription, successively copied one from another, is too 

 loose, and too inapplicable to our bird, to admit of 

 amalgamation. Even that by M. Temminck, ad- 

 mirable as it is, and drawn up with a precision well 

 deserving imitation, offers some slight differences 

 from ours : the crown of the head, for instance, is 

 termed " roux" whereas, in all our specimens, it is 

 of the same dark brown as the rest of the body ; 



