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BROWN AFRICAN FRANCOLIN. 



Inhabits the extensive countries of the middle 

 regions of Africa, near the large rivers in the deep 

 forests of those parts. 



BROWN AFRICAN FRANCOLIN, 

 (Francolinus spadiceus.) 



Fr. corpore supra subtus caudaque intense spadiceis, vertice col- 

 loque superiore dilutioribus, temporibus nudis, caudd longd, 

 rotundatd, (¥emina. pedibus muticis ?) 



Francolin with the body above and beneath, and the tail, deep 

 chesnut j the top of the head and the upper part of the neck 

 palest ; the temples naked the tail long and rounded. (Fe- 

 male with the legs smooth ?) 



Perdix spadicea. Lath, Ind. Orn. 1, 644. 4. — Temm, Gall, hid, 

 719. 



Tetrao spadiceus. Gmel. Syst.Nat, 1. 759. 29. 



La Perdrix rouge de Madagascar. Sonner. Voy. Ind. 2. p. 169. 



Francolin spadice. Temm. Pig. etOall, 3. p. 315. 



Brown African Partridge. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 759. 4. 



The male of this species is only known, and was 

 discovered by Sonnerat in his voyage to India, in 

 the island of Madagascar : the space round the 

 eyes is naked, and of a reddish yellow colour : the 

 top of the head and the throat are of a brown- 

 bister : the rest of the plumage of the upper and 

 under parts of the body of a red-brown, slightly 

 edged with olive-grey : the great and middle fea- 



