FRANCO LINUS SUBTORQUATUS.— Smith. 



AvES.— Plate XV. (Male.) 



F. capite supra sordide badio, grisco-unibrato ct maeulis brunneis varicgato ; cervicis parte siipenore 

 lateribusque ochreis; dorso, caudaque sordide subruiis brunneo-fasciatis; pluinarura rachidibus 

 albis ; oculo inter tsenias duas nigras, superiore post aurem desinente iiiferiore ad guttur porrecta, et 

 cum iiiferiore lateris adversi lunulam formante ; gula, guttureque subflavis ; pectore, abdomineque 

 subalbis brunneo-fasciatis; rostro sordide brunnco ; pedibu-i flavis ; oculis rubro-brunneis. 



LoNGiTUDo 10 unc. 



Perdix Coari, Rcp- of Exped. page 55, June, 1836. 



Colour. — The upper aspect of the head rufous brown, faintly clouded with 

 lavender purple, and obscurely spotted with dusky brown ; the eyebrows, the 

 bases of the ear coverts, and the back and sides of the neck, towards the 

 head, pale ochry red ; the tips of the ear coverts bright rufous, and the 

 feathers immediately surrounding the angles of the mouth rusty white. The 

 side of the head is crossed by two fine black lines, the one above, the other 

 below the eye; the former terminates on the side of the neck, about three 

 quarters of an inch behind the ear coverts ; the latter, which has its origin at 

 the angle of the mouth, descends towards the throat, and, with the corre- 

 sponding one of the opposite side, forms a narrow lunated collar across the 

 throat. The lower part of the neck, in front of the interscapulars, clear 

 rufous, with some of the hindermost feathers tipt faintly with white, in 

 addition to being marked with a brown bar upon each vane ; the ground 

 colour of the back, the shoulders, the secondary quill coverts, the tertiary 

 quill feathers and the tail, intermediate between rufous and clear rufous 

 brown, with each of the feathers of the back marked by a rusty white stripe 

 in the course of the shaft, and by several broad, incomplete dark brown bars 

 on each vane; the centre of some of the bars much lighter than the circum- 

 ference. The shoulder feathers and the secondary wing coverts are variegated 

 somewhat in the same manner, only much more delicately, the centre stripes 

 being very slender, and the transverse bars narrow and less distinctly 

 defined ; — several of the coverts are, besides, tipt with a yellowish white 

 colour. The tertiary quill feathers are marked, either with uniform black- 

 brown bars, or with a series of brown blotches upon each vane, the circum- 

 ferences of which are much darker than the centres ; the tail is also barred 

 nearly after the same fashion. The primary wing coverts and the primary 

 and secondary quill feathers are pale umber brown, the outer vanes of the 



