FRANCOLINUS GARIEPENSIS. 



under tail coverts light buff-orange faintly barred with umber-brown. Intersca- 

 pular and back variegated with bright orange-brown, liver-brown, light buff- 

 orange, and dull pearl-grey, — the buff-orange in narrow stripes, one along the 

 centre of each feather, the liver-brown in transverse bars, which are both be- 

 fore and behind edged with reddish orange ; the pearl-grey towards and at the 

 tips of the feathers in many specimens fades into white. The lesser wing 

 coverts are barred both longitudinally and transversely with buff-orange, and 

 each bar is edged with liver-brown, — on these feathers the pearl-grey is more 

 distinct than on those of the back. Primary and secondary quill feathers 

 dull umber-brown, the former finely freckled with small buff-orange spots, 

 the latter with pale reddish orange bars which change into white towards the 

 edges of the outer vanes, the inner vanes towards quills light orange-red ; 

 the tertiaries and scapulars with a reddish orange line in the course of their 

 shaft, and barred transversely with the same colour, each bar being edged 

 before and behind with liver-brown, and between the edgings the colour is 

 a light pearly grey, finely mottled with umber-brown. Tail umber-brown, 

 with waved, transverse, reddish orange bars, the feathers, particularly at the 

 tips, tinted with pearl-grey. The edge of the upper mandible towards its 

 base, and the base of the lower one reddish yellow, elsewhere brownish 

 red. Legs and toes a rusty buff-orange ; claws brownish-red ; the base of 

 the spur reddish yellow, the remainder brownish red. Eyes deep 

 brownish red. 



Form, &c. — Figure moderately robust ; head rather small ; bill much 

 arched towards the point, the upper mandible considerably longer than 

 the lower, and obtuse at the point. Wings rounded, and when folded reach 

 a little beyond the base of the tail ; the third quill feather the longest, the 

 second and fourth a little shorter, the first about an inch shorter than the 

 second ; tertiaries and scapulars nearly as long as the primaries. Tail rather 

 long and rounded at the tip. Tarsi compressed, anteriorly coated with large 

 scales, laterally with small scales, and behind with scales of an intermediate 

 size. Toes slender, with rudimentary webs ; claws slightly curved, rather 

 slender, and blunt at the point ; spur originating on the inner and posterior 

 aspect of the tarsus is short, curved, and towards the point turned obliquely 

 upwards. 



