RED-NECKED FRANCOLIN. 
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called a Pheasant : it lives in woods, and at the 
rising and setting of the sun utters its cry : its food 
consists of the roots of bulbous plants, insects, and 
their larvae: the female deposits her eggs in a rough 
nest, amongst bushes : the young remain with the 
parents till the breeding season. 
RED-NECKED FRANCOLIN. 
(Francolinus TubricoUis.) 
Fr. corpore Jusco-maculato, crisso albo, orhitis gulaque nudis ru- 
hris, strigd supra et infra oculos alba. ■ pedes rubris. 
Francolin with the body spotted with fuscous j the vent white j 
the orbits and throat naked and red j above and beneath the 
eyes a white stripe j feet red. 
Perdix rubricollis. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 64S. 13. — Gmel. Syst. 
Nat. 1. 758. 34. 
La Perdrix rouge d’Afrique. Byf. Ois. 2. 444. — Pl> Enl. 
180. 
Red-necked Partridge. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 771- 13. 
Latham thus describes this bird. “ Size of a 
male Partridge : length thirteen inches : beak short, 
red : round the eye a bare space, pointed before 
and behind : chin and throat bare and red : the 
general colour of the plumage brown, spotted above 
with darker brown : over the eye a white streak ; 
beneath another, which bounds the upper part of 
the bare space on the throat, curving downwards ; 
