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SENEGAL FRANCOLIN. 



thers of the wings are of a brown-bister: the tail- 

 feathers are the same, varied with narrow zigzag 

 stripes of a dusky hue : the feet are fiery red, armed 

 with two very slender and sharp spurs, which, as 

 well as the claws, are brown. 



SENEGAL FRANCOLIN. 

 (Francolinus Senegalensis.) 



Fr. corpore rufo Jiisco albidoque varioj vertice rufo, superciliis 



nigrisi gula alba, 

 Francolin with the body varied with rufous, brown, and white 



the top of the head rufous j the eyebrows black ; the throat 



white. 



Perdix Senegalensis. Briss. Orn. 1. 231. Q.fol. I^.f, I. 



Perdix bicalcarata. Lath. hid. Orn. 2. 643. 2. 



Perdix Adansonii. Temm. Gall. hid. 717. 



Tetrao bicalcaratus. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 277. 15. — Gmel.Syst, 



Nat. 1. 759. 15. 

 Le Bis-ergot. Buf. Ois. 2. 433.— Buf. PL Enl. 137. 

 Francolin Adanson. Temm. Pig, et Gall. 3. 305. 

 Senegal Partridge. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 757* 2. 



Rather larger than the Red-legged Partridge : 

 length thirteen inches : beak horn-coloured : the 

 top of the head tawny : a black line extends from 

 the nostrils to a short distance behind the eyes, 

 over which it passes : above this is a rufous white 

 band, with one of black above, which passes to the 



