GALLING. 

 Fam. TETRAONIDiE. 



Bill stout, shorter than in Phasianidse, usually plumed to the base of the nostril. 

 Wings ample, round, but often pointed. Tail usually short. Tarsus short and stout, spurred in 

 some. 



Of moderate size, neck short ; of stout form ; plumage of some differing slightly in the 

 sexes. 



Genus FKANCOLINUS. 

 Bill stout, rather long, wide at the base, culmen curved from the tip ; nostrils placed in a 

 capacious membrane. Wings rather short, pointed, the quills acuminate, the 5th quill the 

 longest ; secondaries exceeding the primaries. Tail of 14 feathers, longer than in Perdix, 

 rounded. Legs and feet stout. Tarsus longer than the middle toe, covered in front with two rows 

 of pentagonal scales. Lateral toes short, the inner less than the outer ; hind toe and claw short. 



FRANCOLINUS PICTUS. 



(THE PAINTED PARTRIDGE.) 



Perdix picta, Jard. & Selby, 111. Orn. pi. 50 (1848-52). 



Francolinus pictus (J. & S.), Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 251 (1849); Jerdon, B. of Ind. 

 iii. p. 561 (1864) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 158 ; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 469 ; Hume, 

 Nests and Eggs, iii. p. 7 (1875) ; Butler & Hume, Str. Feath. 1876, p. 7 ; Fairbank, t. c. 

 p. 262 ; Butler, ibid. 1877, p. 211 ; Ball, t. c. p. 419 ; Davidson & Wender, ibid. 1878, 

 vii. p. 87 ; Ball, t. c. p. 225 ; Hume, ibid. List B. of Ind. 1879, p. 111. 



The Painted Francolin of some writers ; The Fort-Macdonald Partridge of the Planters. 

 Kala-titar, Hind. ; Eakkera-kodi, Telugu. 



Adult male. Length " 12 inches "' (Jerdon) ; wing 5 - 6 to 5-8 ; tail 2-5 ; tarsus 1*6 ; middle toe and claw 1*35 ; bill to 

 gape 1*1. 



The above measurements are from Indian examples which I have examined. 



" Iris dark brown ; bill blackish ; legs yellow-red " (Jerdon). 



(Deesa, Bombay Presidency.) Forehead, face, ear-coverts, and a broad stripe passing from above the eye down to the 

 sides of the nape yellowish rufescent, which colour forms the margins of the feathers beneath the ears and across 

 the hind neck : feathers of the hind neck blackish at the centres, each on the lower part with four round spots 

 opposite one another ; prevailing colour of the scapulars and wing-coverts yellowish rufescent, the seapulars with 

 black centres divided by an arrow-shaped mark paler than the edgings ; wing-coverts with the rufous portion 

 divided into spots by a blackish central mark ; feathers of the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts crossed with 

 alternate black and white bars, tinged on the upper part of the back with fulvous ; primaries and secondaries 

 brown, crossed with wide bars of rufescent yellow, which are narrowest on the inner webs : upper tail-coverts 

 iron-grey, barred with combined black and white bars ; tail brownish black, barred near the base with white. 



General ground-colour of the under surface white, tinged with fulvous on the flanks, abdomen, and throat; fore neck 

 marked with black mesial lines, gradually spreading out on the chest into bars and central marks enclosing round 



