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food consists of small bulbs, seeds, berries and insects, and its 

 flesh is excellent eating. No observer has hitherto describe!! the 

 nest and eggs. 



Mr. Millar met with these birds plentifully in Zululand on the 

 White Umvolosi River, near its junction with the Black Umvolosi ; 

 he found them shy, and so much addicted to close cover that they 

 were difficult to procure. 





649. Francolinus africanus. Grey-wing or Cape Partridge. 



Perdix afra, (nee Midi.), Lath. Ind. Oni. ii. p. 648 (1790). 



Francolinus africanus, Steph. in Shaw's Genl. Zool. xi, p. 323 (1819) ; 

 Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 43 ; id. Cat. B. M. xxii, p. 152 (1893) ; id. Game 

 Birds, i, p. 117 (1895) ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 181 (1896) ; Woodward 

 Bros. Natal Birds, p. 162 (1899) ; Oates, Cat. B. Eggs, i, p. 38 (1901). 



Francolinus afer,P. L. Sdater, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 23 [Cathcart division] ; 

 Laijard, B. S. Afr. p. 270 (1867) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 84; Barratt, 

 Ibis, 1876, p. 208 ; Oates, Matabeleland, p. 323 (1881) ; Holub & 

 Pelz. Orn. Siid-Afr. p. 188 (1882) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. 

 p. 595 (1884) ; Bnjden, Kloof and Karoo, p. 312 (1889) ; Schaec 1 -, 

 Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. iv, p. 351 (1891) ; Nicolls andEglington, S2)ortsm. 

 S. Afr. p. 101 (1892) ; Reichenow, Vog.Afr. i, p. 485 (1901) ; Sharpe, 

 Ibis, 1904, p. 3 [Deelfontein] . 



i( Patrijs" or " Berg Patrijs" of the Dutch ; " Intendele " or " Isikwat- 

 sha " of the Amaxosa (Stanford) also applied to the Eedwing ; 

 " Khuale " of Basutos (Murray). 



Description. Male. Crown and nape black, varied with pale 

 rufous edgings to most of the feathers ; sides of the neck barred 

 with black and white, with a patch of rufous in between it and the 

 base of the nape ; rest of the upper surface greyish-brown clouded 

 here and there. with darker brown, and with narrow bars of pale 

 chestnut-brown and longitudinal shaft streaks of pale buff ; primaries 

 uniform brown on the inner web, slightly mottled with rufous on the 

 outer ; chin and throat white, barred with black, especially at the 

 sides and below ; a narrow line of rufous running from the lores 

 below the eye, through the ear-coverts along the side of the neck, 

 separate this from the black and white patches at the side of the 

 neck ; upper breast pale rufous with dark rich chestnut spots plenti- 

 fully disposed, especially along the sides of the breast and flanks ; 

 lower breast white and dark chestnut, the former chiefly in spots, 

 the latter chiefly in rings, giving an ocellated appearance to this 



