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LONG-BEAKED FRANCOLIN. 
scapulars, are chesnut-brown, striped and spotted 
with velvety black ; some of the feathers have a 
border of yellow ochre, and a stripe of the same 
down the shaft : the lower part of the neck and 
the breast are of a grey lead-colour : the feathers 
of the lower part of the back, the rump, and the 
upper tail-coverts, are rust-colour, shaded with 
very fine obscure zigzag lines, with each feather 
at its centre and towards its tip with a pure yellow- 
ochre spot: the inner webs of the wing-coverts 
are chesnut, with black spots ; the outer ones fer- 
ruginous, with undulated brown lines ; the centre 
of all with a yellow-ochre spot : the secondary 
quills and those of the tail are ferruginous, with 
bars and waves of brown : the quills with their 
outer webs only varied with those colours : the 
beak is black : the naked space surrounding the 
eyes is red : the feet, the claws, and the spur, 
which is short and thick, are of a pale horn-colour. 
The female resembles the male, but does not pos- 
sess the grey lead-colour on the lower part of the 
neck and breast, this part being rusty-red : the 
tarsi are quite smooth. 
It inhabits the isle of Sumatra. 
