FRANCOLINUS PI LEATUS.— Smith. 



AvES. — Plate XIV. (Male.) 



F. capite supra sordiJe grisoo, brunncu variegato; iutcrscapularibus, cervicis parte superiore latoribiisque 

 lufide rubro-bruuneis, partis supcrioris plumis iu medio albo strigatis, latcnuuque albu-inaroinatis ; 

 dorso flavo-grisco, brunnco-unibrato ; remigibus primariis secmidariisque brunneis, haruui niargiiii- 

 bus exterioribus albis, illarum versus basin suboehreis ; striga supra subtusque oculos albii ; pectore, 

 ventrequB pallide ochreis, hue faseiis gracilibus brunneis, illo maculis rubro-bruuneis notatis ; pedibus 

 aurantiis. 



Lo.NGiTUDu 1 3 unc. G lin. 



Perdix Sepuaena, Eep. of Exped., page 55, June 1830. 



Colour. — The upper surface of the head is rusty grey, clouded Mith 

 brown ; but the extent to which the brown appears depends upon the position 

 of the feathers. When the latter are disposed in their natural order, little of 

 the brown colour is seen ; but when they are deranged, and their brown bases 

 exposed, then the proportion of the latter colour is considerable. The back 

 and sides of the neck, together with the interscapulars, are intermediate 

 between brownish orange and reddish brown ; the feathers of the former are 

 broadly margined with white, and those of the latter are marked each with a 

 broad white stripe along the centre ; in some of them the stripe is divided 

 longitudinally by a narrow black line, and in others it is margined on each 

 side by a brownish stripe. Back and upper tail coverts yellowish grey ; the 

 former faintly clouded with brown, and the latter delicately mottled with very 

 fine transverse lines of the same colour. Shoulders hair-brown, several of 

 the feathers broadly edged with reddish brown, and all marked with a white 

 stripe in the course of the shafts. Primary c|uill coverts and primary and 

 secondary quill feathers chocolate brown, with yellowish white shafts ; the 

 outer vanes of the primaries, towards their bases, margined with pale sienna 

 yellow, or light reddish brown ; and those of the secondaries, throughout 

 their whole length, with white. Over each eye, a white stri|je, which terminates 

 at the nape of the neck, and beneath the eye another, which ends before the ear 

 coverts. These stripes, in front of the eye, are separated from each other by a 

 dark brown blotch. The chin, throat, and cheeks, white ; the two latter deli- 

 cately spotted with pale reddish orange ; the breast and belly cream-yellow, 

 the former marked ^\ ith large, fawn-shaped, dark reddish brown spots, and 



