PEARLED FRANCOLIN. 



$2S 



plants, which it digs up with the beak : the female 

 deposits from ten to eighteen eggs of an olive hue, 

 spotted with brown. 



PEARLED FRANCOLIN. 

 (Francolinus perlatus.) 



Ffi. nigrO'Spadiceus, collo tectricibus alarum et partihus infe- 

 rioribus guttis 7naculisque albis conspersis, dorso remigibus 

 secundariis tectricibusque caudce 7iigro riifoque transversim 

 striatis, fascia per ocidos alter aque infra nigris. (Femina 

 corpore subtus transversim striata) 



Deep chesnut Francolin ; with the neck, wing-coverts, and 

 under parts of the body, sprinkled with spots and freckles of 

 white J the back, secondary quills, and tail-coverts, transversely 

 striated with black and rufous; a stripe through the eyes 

 and one beneath black. {Female with the body transversely 

 striped beneath.) 



Perdix perlata. Lath. Ind. Orn, 2. 648. 15. — Temm. Gall, Ind, 

 p. 721. 



Perdix Madagascariensis. Lath. Ind, Orn. 2. 645. 8. 

 Perdix Sinensis. Briss. Ois. i. 234. Q. pi. 28, a. f. 1. 

 Tetrao Madagascariensis. Gmel. Si/st. Nat, 1. 756. 31. 

 Tetrao perlatus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 758. 36, 

 Tetrao Sinensis. Osb, Voy. China. 2. 326. 

 Francolin perle. Temm, Pig. et Gall. 3. 326. 

 Le Francolin de Plsle de France. Sonner, Voy. Ind, 2* I66. 

 pi. 97. 



Perdrix perlee de la Chine. Buff, Ois. 2. 446. 



