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t’ONDICHERRY FRANCOLIN. 
(Francolinus Pondicerianus.) 
Fr. rufus nlgro-Jasciatm, sultus albus lunulis nigris, rectricibus 
duabus intermediis Jasciis qualuor albidis ; lateralibus, hitus 
nigro-fasciatis. (Femina muticis,) 
Red Francolin fasciated with black 5 beneath white, with black 
lunules ; the two middle tail-feathers with four white fasciae ; 
the lateral ones internally fasciated with black. {Female with 
the legs smooth.) 
Perdix Ponticeriana. Lath. Ind. Orn, 2. 649. \Q,—Temm. Gall. 
Ind. p. 722 . 
Tetrao Ponticeriana. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1 , 760 . 42. 
Le Perdrix de Pondicherry. Sonner. Voy. Ind, 2 . l 65 . 
Francolin a rabat, ou a gorge rousse. Temm. Pig. et Gall, 3. 
332. 
Pondicherry Partridge, Lath, Gen, Syn. 4. 77 '^* — Lath, 
Syn. Sup. 221, (female.) 
This beautiful species was discovered by Son- 
nerat on the coast of Coromandel, near Pondi- 
cherry : it is ten inches in length : the beak is red 
at its base and yellow at its tip : the irides are 
red : the forehead and the region of the eyes are 
bright red ; the colour passing over the latter like 
an eyebrow, and ending on the hind head: the 
top of the head is of a grey-brown : the breast is 
alternately striped with whitish yellow and bright 
brown : the back, the greater and lesser wing- 
coverts, and the rump, grey-brown ; the edges of 
the feathers with black spots, and all of them with 
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