AFRICAN FRANCOLIN. 



minck : its length is twelve inches : on the breast 

 is a large rounded space of a greyish green hue, 

 varied with delicate zigzag black lines : the throat 

 is rufous, and that colour is distributed over the 

 sides of the neck, and surrounds the spot on the 

 breast : the under parts of the body are of a yel- 

 lowish red, each feather having a black spot, more 

 or less rounded : the back is grey-brow^n, with 

 large spots of dusky brown : the feathers of the 

 scapulars are beautifully varied with small w^hite 

 crescents : the naked skin surrounding the eyes is 

 sprinkled with fleshy pimples, of a fine red : the 

 beak, the feet, and the spurs, are fine shining 

 silvery white : the female is unknown. 



AFRICAN FRANCOLIN. 

 (Francolinus Africanus.) 



Fr. corpore supra ci7iereo-fusco nigro maculato, maculis magnis 

 lineis iransversisque rujis, pennariim omnium rachis albis, colli 

 lateribus rufo nigroque mriis, giitture nigro alboque yariegato, 

 maculis hypochondriarum peciorisque magnis castaneis. 



Francolin with the body above spotted with cinereous, fuscous 

 and black, with transverse rufous spots and lines ; the shafts 

 of all the feathers white j the sides of the neck red and 

 black ; the throat variegated with black and white 5 the sides 

 and breast witn large chesnut spots, 



Perdix Afra. Lath. Ind, Orn, 2. §48. l5.—Temm. Gall. Ind, p, 

 723. 



Francolin Ourikinas. Tem^n, Pig, et Gall. 3. p. 337. 

 Pearled Partridge, /^a///. Gen. St/n. 4. 773. 15. a. 



