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318 LONG-BEAKED FRANCOLIN, 



scapulars, are chesnut-brown, striped and spotted 

 with velvety black ; some of the feathers have a 

 border of yellow ochre, and a stripe of the same 

 down the shaft : the lower part of the neck and 

 the breast are of a grey lead-colour : the feathers 

 of the lower part of the back, the rump, and the 

 upper tail-coverts, are rust- colour, shaded with 

 very fine obscure zigzag lines, with each feather 

 at its centre and towards its tip with a pure yellow- 

 ochre spot : the inner webs of the wing-coverts 

 are chesnut, with black spots ; the outer ones fer- 

 ruginous, with undulated brown lines ; the centre 

 of all with a yellow-ochre spot : the secondary 

 quills and those of the tail are ferruginous, with 

 bars and waves of brown : the quills with their 

 outer webs only varied with those colours : the 

 beak is black : the naked space surrounding the 

 eyes is red : the feet, the claws, and the spur, 

 which is short and thick, are of a pale horn-colour. 

 The female resembles the male, but does not pos- 

 sess the grey lead-colour on the lower part of the 

 neck and breast, this part being rusty-red: the 

 tarsi are quite smooth. 



It inhabits the isle of Sumatra. 



