AFRICAN FRANCOLIN. 
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minck : its length is twelve inches : on the breast 
is a large rounded space of a greyish green hue, 
varied with delicate zigzag black lines : the throat 
is rufous, and that colour is distributed over the 
sides of the neck, and surrounds the spot on the 
breast : the under parts of the body are of a yel- 
lowish red, each feather having a black spot, more 
or less rounded : the back is grey-brown, with 
large spots of dusky brown : the feathers of the 
scapulars are beautifully varied with small white 
crescents : the naked skin surrounding the eyes is 
sprinkled wdth fleshy pimples, of a fine red : the 
beak, the feet, and the spurs, are fine shining 
silvery white : the female is unknown. 
AFRICAN FRANCOLIN. 
(Francolinus Africanus.) 
Fr. coY'pore supra cinereo-fusco nigro maculato, maculis magnis 
lineis transversisque rujis, pennarum omnium rachis albis, colli 
luteribus rujo nigroque variis, gutture nigro alboque variegatOy 
maculis hypochondriarum pectorisque magnis castanets. 
Francolin with the body above spotted with cinereous, fuscous 
and black, with transverse rufous spots and lines ; the shafts 
of all the feathers white 3 the sides of the neck red and 
black ; the throat variegated with black and white j the sides 
and breast with large chesnut spots. 
Perdix Afra, Lath. Ind, Orn. 2. 648. 16. — Temm. Gall. Ind. p. 
723. 
Francolin Ourikinas. Temm, Pig. el Gall. 3. p. 337. 
Pearled Partridge. Lath. Gen. Syn, 4. 773. 15. a. 
