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Francolinus pictus, Jardine and Selby. 



Vernacular Names-— [Kala titur, (Mahrathi) ; Titar, Poona, Satara, &c. 

 Kakera Kodi (Telegu).] 



HE line indicated, when discussing the distribution in 

 India of the Black Partridge, as marking- with a 

 close approximation to accuracy the southern limits 

 of that species, may be equally accepted as defining 

 the northern extension of the Painted Partridge. 



South of this line, in Kathiawar, and close to 

 Deesa itself, in Guzerat, Baroda, the Panch Mahals, 

 Khandesh, the Central India Agency, and Bundelkhand, Jhansi, 

 Saugor and the greater portion of the Central Provinces (in- 

 cluding the Eastern Feudatory States) and Berar, in the Nizam's 

 Territory, the Bombay Presidency generally south of Khandesh, 

 almost to its southernmost limits, and the central and northern 

 portions of the Madras Presidency, this species is widely, but 

 very locally, distributed. 



Captain T. M. Ward tells me that he has shot it at Kalyan 

 and on the island of Salsette, but that it is absent from the 

 Southern Konkan, Goa, and from the greater part of North 

 Kanara, " where," writes Mr. Elphinston, for many years there 

 stationed, " except along its eastern border, the forest is too thick 

 both above and below the Ghats."* 



It also avoids the western portions, at any rate, of the Poona 

 and Satara districts, though in the eastern portions of the 

 latter, viz., Tasgaon, Khanapur, and Jath, it is, Mr. Vidal says, 



* On this head, Col. Peyton, for years the crack shot of the Southern Mahratta 

 country, writes to me : — 



"The Painted Partridge is found in Kanara in the grass and low jnngle along 

 the Kanara border, touching the Belgaum, Dharwar and Mysore open country, I 

 have never seen it below the Ghats or in heavy forests, neither have I seen it along 

 the Ghats anywhere except on some rather extensive old Kumri {i.e. cultivation by 

 burning down the jungle) tracts in the Sirsi and Siddapur Talukas that are bare 

 of everything save grass. There it is most unmistakably to be found, and along 

 the very crest of the Ghats too, as any one acquainted with their peculiar call and 

 habit of getting up into solitary trees or rising places to send forth their challenge 

 would at once discover if passing along in this direction in March. " 



