CEYLON FRANCOLIN. 



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occiput: the sides of the head are white, with 

 streaks of black : the neck rufous, varied with 

 brown and dirty white spots : the upper parts of 

 the body and wings varied with brown, rufous, 

 and sullied white : quills brown, with paler spots : 

 the under parts of the body similar to the upper, 

 but less rufous : tail banded with rufous and brown : 

 legs brown, naked, and furnished with two spurs, 

 both of which are blunt. Female without the 

 spurs. 



This inhabits the interior of Africa, and Senegal, 

 on the umbrageous borders of the Niger : nothing 

 is known of its manners : its flesh is said not to be 

 very fine, but poor and meagre. 



CEYLON FRANCOLIN. 

 (Francolinus Ceylonensis.) 



Fr. corpore supra nigricante, subtiis nigricante-Jusco , pennis 

 medio albis, cervice tectricibusque alarum maculis albis sagit' 

 tatis variis, caudd elongata rotundatd nigra, area oculorum 

 nuda rubra. (Femina absque guttis albis et calcaribus.) 



Francolin with the body above duskj;, beneath dusky brown ; 

 the feathers white in the middle 3 the top of the neck and 

 wing-coverts varied with arrow-shaped white spots the tail 

 elongated, rounded, black ; region of the eyes naked and 

 red. (Female without the white spots or spurs.) 



Perdix Ceylonensis. LatJu Ind. Orn. 2. 644. 3. — Temm. Gall, 

 Ind, 7 18. 



Perdix bicalcaratus. Forst, ZooL Lid. 25. 14. Jl 1, 2. 



