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THORACIC FRANCOLIN. 
three reddish white stripes : the quills are grey : the 
secondaries the same, with their outer webs striped 
with yellowish white : the two middle tail-feathers 
are grey, spotted with grey-brown, and crossed 
with four yellow-white bands : the lateral feathers 
are red at their base, with a black fascia towards 
their tips, which are reddish white : the belly and 
the abdomen are white, striped with semicircular 
bands, and rufous at their edges : the legs are red, 
and armed with a strong spur. 
The female differs in being less brilliant in 
plumage, and in wanting the spur. 
THORACIC FRANCOLIN. 
(Francolinus thoracicus.) 
Fr. corpore supra griseo-fusco, maculis J'usco-nigris adspershy 
pectore ared rotundatd magnd grised, margine guttureque 
Titfis, ventre abdomineque luteo-rujis nigro-maculatis. 
Francolin with the body beneath grey-brown, sprinkled with 
brown-black spots ; the breast with a rounded grey area, its 
margin and the throat rufous 3 the belly and abdomen yel- 
lowish red, spotted with black. 
Perdix thoraeica. Temm. Gall. Ind. 723. 
Francolin h Plastron. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. 335. 
Native of India: only one specimen known, 
which is of the male sex : it is described by Tern- 
