I06 GAME BIRDS OF INDIA AND ASIA. 



state. The keeper of the aviary in which a speci- 

 men of this species was confined in the London Zoo 

 told me that he had seen it standing in water. 



The Black Partridge. 



Francolinus vulgaris. Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, 

 Vol. IV, p. 135. 



Native names : — Kala-titar, Hind. ; Kais- 

 titar (the female) Nepal ; Tetra, Garhwal ; 

 Vrembi of the Manipuris. 



In this species the cock is spurred, and his 

 plumage differs conspicuously from that of the 

 female. His general colour is black, with a long 

 white patch on each side of the face, large white 

 spots along the flanks, and close white barring on 

 the lower part of the back and the tail. There is 

 a chestnut collar round the neck, and a patch of 

 the same colour under the tail ; the shoulders and 

 most of the wings are brown marked with buff, 

 the markings following the edge of the feathers ; 

 the quills are barred with buff. The belly is pale 

 chestnut marked with white ; the crown streaked 

 light and dark brown. 



The hen is somewhat like the cock above, but 

 the barring of the back and tail is coarser, and 

 brown and buff instead of black and white. She 

 shows no black on the head or below, and no chest- 

 nut on the neck except at the back of it. She has 

 the eyebrows and sides of the head buff, the throat 

 nearly white, and the rest of the lower parts buff 

 irregularly pencilled with brown. 



