FRANCOLINUS GARIEPENSIS. 



AvEs.— Plate LXXXIII.— Male. 



F. fronte, capite, cerviceque superne rubro-brunneis, pluniis rubro-aurantio-marginatis; cervice fasciis 

 duabus nigro-brunneis albo-maculatis notata, fahcla superiore ad basin cervicis desinente ; dorso 

 aurantio-brunneo, nigro-brunneo, aurantio, et griseo variogato ; gula gutturequo superne albis ; pec- 

 tore rubro-aurantio, subflavo, et griseo variegato, pluniis fasciolis nigro-brunneis notatis ; ventre, 

 flavo-aurautio, aurantio-rubroque strigato ; tarsis pedibusque flavo-aurautiis ; rostro brunneo-rubro 

 versus basin flavo ; oculis brunueo-rubris. 



LoNGlTDDO e rostri apice ad basin caudee 14 unc. ; caudae 3 unc. 9 hn. 



Colour.— The forehead, the upper surface of the head, and the back of 

 the neck dull reddish brown, all the feathers edged with pale rusty orange, 

 and some of them towards the back marked in the course of the shaft with 

 a stripe of a like colour, the proportion of the light tint greatest towards the 

 interscapulars. The sides of the neck are variegated with two arched liver- 

 brown bars mottled with white, the upper one originating at the outer 

 canthus of the eye, the other at the base of the lower jaw ; and they are 

 separated from each other by a rusty orange stripe sparingly mottled with 

 umber-brown. The superior of these arches terminates towards the base of 

 the neck, the other joins its fellow of the opposite side, and forms a dark 

 semicircle in front of the neck, the convexity of which is backwards ; the upper- 

 most arch is separated from the parts of the hind head and neck already 

 described by a rusty orange band sparingly dotted with brown. The chin 

 and part of the throat anterior to the dark semicircle white, and the front and 

 sides of the neck below it, as also the breast a colour intermediate between 

 orpiment and reddish orange, variegated with longitudinal bars of light cream- 

 yellow, one on each feather, some of them occupying nearly the entire of the 

 outer vane, and broken by narrow transverse liver-brown bars ; the tips dull 

 pearl-grey. Belly mottled with irregular blotches of bright buff- orange, and 

 a colour intermediate between orpiment and reddish orange ; thighs and 



