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h. GuLA ORBiTisauE niidis; TARSUS tuhercido et calcare armatus. 

 b. Throat and oj bits naked : tarsus, armed with a tubercle and 

 a spur. 



CAPE FRANCOLIN. 

 (Francolinus Capensis.) 



Fr. corpore supra cinereo-nigricante, subtus spadice, maculis Ion- 

 gitudinalibus albis, guld nudd rubra, pectore strigis albis, pe- 

 dibus rubris. {Femum pedibus muticis.) 



Francolin with the body above dusky-grey, beneath chesnut, 

 with longitudinal white spots j the throat naked and red; the 

 breast with white striae ; the feet red. [Female with the legs 

 smooth.) 



Perdix Capensis. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 643. 1. 

 Perdix nudicollis. Lath. Ind, Orn. 2. 644. 5. ? Temm. Gall. 

 Ind. p. 720. 



Tetrao Capensis. Gmel. Syst.Nat. 1. 759. 37. 

 Tetrao nudicollis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 759. 40. ? 

 Le Gorge nue. BuJ^. Ois. 2. 444. 

 Francolin a gorge nue. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. 317' 

 Bare-necked Partridge. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 759. 5. ? 

 Cape Partridge. Lath. Gen, Syn. 4. 7^6. 1. 



The male Cape Francolin is fifteen inches and 

 a half in length : the feathers of the upper part of 

 the head are grey-brown, with a black spot in their 

 centre ; those of the hinder parts and sides of the 

 neck are brown, with two small white longitudinal 

 stripes on their sides : the top of the back and the 

 wing-coverts are deep brown, with a longitudinal 

 brown spot in the centre of each feather: the lower 

 part of the back and the rump are grey-brown, 



