33. THE BLACK FRANCOLIN. 



Francolinus francolinuS) (LINNAEUS). 

 With the hindneck chestnut. 



MALE : The chestnut on the hindneck 

 produced round the neck as a collar. 



FEMALE: The chestnut on the hindneck 

 confined to that part. 



VERNACULAR NAMES: Kala titur, Hind.; 

 Rais-titur, female, Nepal ; Tetra, Garh- 

 wal ; Vrembi, Manipur. 



THE Black Francolin or Black Partridge 

 is widely distributed through the northern 

 part of the Empire, but is entirely absent 

 from large tracts of country which are too 

 dry for its habits, such as portions of 

 Rajputana. 



The series of skins of this Partridge 

 in the Hume Collection do not show the 

 limits of its distribution at all satisfactorily. 

 It appears, however, to be spread over 

 the whole of northern India, its southern 

 limit being, according to Messrs. Hume 

 and Marshall, a line drawn from the Gulf 

 of Cutch up to Gwalior, and thence down 

 to the Chilka Lake on the eastern coast. 



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