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JOURNAL 



OF THE 



Bombay Natural History Society. 



Mae. 1921. Vol. XXVII. 



No. 3. 



THE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON, 



E. C. Stuart Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



Part XXXI. 



{Continued from page 210 of this Volume.) 

 QenwB—FRA NCOLINUS (continued.) 

 FrANCOLINUS PICTUS PALLIDUS. 



The Northern Painted Partridge. 



Perdix hepburni var. pallida. — Gray, III. Ind. Zool. I., pi. 55, Fig. 2 (Ody- 

 pore) (1830-32). 



Francolinus pictus. — BIyth, Cat. B. M. A. S., p. 251 (1849) (Pen, India) 

 (part) ; Jerdon, B. of I. II., p. 561 (1863) (part) ; Blanf., J. A. S. B., XXXVL, 

 p. 200 (1867) (Guzerat and Kutch) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 157 (part) ; Beavan, 

 Ibis, 1868, p. 383 (GwaHor) ; Hume, N. & E. of In. Birds, p. 538 (1873) 

 (part) ; Lloyd, Ibis, 1873, p. 415 (Kathiawar) ; Butler, Str. Feath, IV., p. 6 

 (1876) (Mt. Abu) ; Butler, ibid, V., p. 211 (1877) (Abu, N. Guzerat) ; Ball, 

 ibid, p. 419 (1877) (Mahanadi and Godavery) ; id., ibid, VII., p. 225 (1878) 

 (Raipur); Hume and Marsh., Game-B. IL, p. 19 (1879) (part); Butler, Cat. 

 B. of Sind, p. 54 (1879) ; Ward -Ram., Ibis, 1880, p. 70 (Afghanistan) ; 

 Swin. & Barnes, Ibis, 1885, p. 131 (C. India) ; Gates ed., Hume's N. & Eggs, 

 III., p. 420 (1890) ; 0-Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 40 (part) ; id.. Cat. B. M., XXII., 

 p. 138 (1893) (part) ; id., Man. Game B. L, p. 160 (1898) (part) ; Blanf. 

 Fauna. B. I. Aves. IV., p. 137 (1898) ; Gates, Cat. Eggs B. M. L, p. 37 (1901) 

 (part) ; King, Jour. B. N. H. S. XXL, p. 100 (1911) (Saugur) ; Whitehead, 

 ibid, XXL, p. 168 (1911) (Sehore). 



VERNACULAR NAMES.— Tiinv {Bombay) ; Kala Titur {Mahratti). 



Description. — Exactly like F. ]}■ pictus, but much paler. 



If series of F. p. pictus and F. p. pallidus are placed in two rows 

 on their backs side by side pallidus gives an impression of compa- 

 ratively bright pale, rufous lower parts ; whilst pictus appears to 



