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FRANCOLINUS CHINENSIS. 



SPOTTED FRAXCOLIN. Plate YII. 



Black, with round white spots; loms, riimi), and tail black, cross-banded with white; top 

 of head, nape, scapulars, tips of back-feathers, and under tail-coverts chestnut ; middle of crown 

 brown, feathers pale-edged ; chin, upper part of throat, and sides of face white, with a band 

 over the 63^5 and another from the angle of the mouth to under tlie ears black ; bill black ; 

 feet yellow. Length 12 inches. 



Tetrao chinensis, OshecJc ; Perdix pcrlatus, Gm. ; P. sinensis, Sjjrdoiosk. ; Francolinus 

 perlatus, Steph. ; Perdix (Francolinus) maculatus, Gr. ; P. Phayrei, Bl. ; Franco- 

 linus sinensis, SiDinlt. ; F. cliinensis, G. li. Gr. 



Mr. Swinhoe tells us that this bird is common on the hills of South China, and that it is 

 usually met with single and difficult to flush. It is very common everywhere in Flainan. 

 especially about tlie grave-covered plains, and is sometimes seen perched upon one of these 

 and shrieking out its loud call. 



PERDIX THORACICA. 



WEDGE-TAILED PARTRIDGE. Plate VIII. 



Blue-grey, vcrmiculated and speckled witli black ; chin, ears, sides of neck, throat, and 

 abdomen bay ; sides and ei)igastrum Ijlack-spotted ; \^ing-coA erts and scapulars white-speckled 

 and chestnut-spotted; secondaries irregularly white-l)anded ; outer ones black-tipped; tail 

 long, wedge-shaped, obscurely banded ; quills brown ; bill and feet dark. Length 11 inches. 



Peidix thoracica, Tenu ; Perdix sphenura, Gr. ; Arboricola bambusic ct Bambusicola 



thoracica, iSwiiili. 



Tliis bird is found on the Foorliow Hills, where it lives, says Mr. Swinhoe, in pairs, which 

 are scattered about the bush, wliere each pair soh^cts its own beat ; they are not easilv flushed, 

 lying so close to the ground that they are not discovered without ditRculty, though they have 

 just emitted their challenge-note. If any other Partridge comes near the selected spot, then 

 it is set-upon liy the ]iair and buffeted until it leaves the place. At night they roost on the 

 l)aniboos and other trees. 



EULABEOKNIS STEIATUS. 



GULAR RAIL. Plate IX. 



Top of head and liind neck dark chestnut; u})per ])lumage olivaceous, entirely covered 

 with narrow v.liite and Ijlack-edged bars ; beneath the chin and throat whitish ; neck, breast, 

 and upper j'art of abdouK.'n bluish grey ; the lower abdomen, vent, and up])er tail-coverts and 

 tiii"h-co\erts dull oli\aceous, with wiiite Ijands. Lengtli VI inches. 



Rallus striatus, Liini. ; R. fuscus, Lafli. ; R. gularis, Jlur.^f. ; R. albiventris. Sir. ; 

 R. i))dicus, ]'rrr.\ R. philipi)ensis, p., Z//. ; pAilabeornis striat\is, G. B. Gr. 



