CEYLON FRANCOLIN. 
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occiput: the sides of the head are white, with 
streaks of black : the neck rufous, varied with 
brown and dirty white spots : the upper parts of 
the body and wings varied with brown, rufous, 
and sullied white : quills brown, with paler spots : 
the -under parts of the body similar to the upper, 
but less rufous : tail banded with rufous and brown : 
legs brown, naked, and furnished with two spurs, 
both of which are blunt. Female without the 
spurs. 
This inhabits the interior of Africa, and Senegal, 
on the umbrageous borders of the Niger : nothing 
is known of its mannei's: its flesh is said not, to be 
very fine, but poor and meagre. 
CEYLON FRANCOLIN. 
(Francolinus Ceylonensis.) 
Fr. corpore supra nigricante, subtus nigricante-fiisco, pennis 
medio alhis, cervice tectricibusque alarum macidis albis sagit- 
tatis variis, caudd elongnid rotimdald nigra,, area oculorum 
nudd. rubrd. (Femina absque guttis albis et calcat-ibus.) 
Francolin with the body above dusky, beneath dusky brown ; 
the feathers white in the middle ; the top of the neck and 
wing-coverts varied with arrow-shaped white spots ; the tail 
elongated, rounded, black ; region of the eyes naked and 
red. (Female without the white spots or sjmrs.) 
Perdix Ceylonensis. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 644. 3. — Temm, Gall, 
hid. 718. 
Perdix bicalcaratus. Forst. Zool. Ind. 25. 14. yi 1, 2. 
