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CAPE FRANCOLIN. 
with a narrow stripe of deep brown following the 
direction of the shaft : the breast, the belly, and 
the feathers of the sides, are chesnnt-brown ; each 
feather with a black longitudinal stripe following 
the shaft, and one of white, slightly edged with 
black on either side in the same position: the quills 
and the tail-feathers are grey-brown : the beak, the 
sides of the head, the upper naked part of the 
neck, and the feet, are fine red : the tarsi are some- 
what double spurred, possessing a sharp ordinary 
spur, and a hard callous tubercle, about an inch 
above : these and the claws are brown. 
The female is smaller, wants the spurs, and the 
space on the throat, which is naked in the male, 
is slightly sprinkled with small white feathers : the 
naked space surrounding the eyes is very small : 
the plumage resembles that of the male, except in 
the following particulars : the feathers of the breast 
and the sides are not tinged with chesnut-brown,- 
neither do they possess the three longitudinal black 
bands or the two white ones, as in the male : the 
whole of the upper parts of the body are deeper 
brown, and the black spots are more dusky and 
extended. The young have the whole of the upper 
parts of a deep grey-brown, with the back, the 
wings, and tail, sprinkled with black spots ; which 
are largest in the middle of the feathers : the fea- 
thers of the breast, the sides, the belly, and the 
abdomen, are transversely striped with brown, 
yellow-ochre, and white. 
This bird inhabits the southern parts of Africa ; 
by the colonists of the Cape of Good Hope it is 
