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CAPE FRANCOLIN. 



with a narrow stripe of deep brown following the 

 direction of the shaft : the breast, the belly, and 

 the feathers of the sides, are chesnut-brown ; each 

 feather with a black longitudinal stripe following 

 the shaft, and one of white, slightly edged with 

 black on either side in the same position: the quills 

 and the tail-feathers are grey-brown : the beak, the 

 sides of the head, the upper naked part of the 

 neck, and the feet, are fine red : the tarsi are some- 

 what double spurred, possessing a sharp ordinary 

 spur, and a hard callous tubercle, about an inch 

 above : these and the claws are brown. 



The female is smaller, wants the spurs, and the 

 space on the throat, which is naked in the male, 

 is slightly sprinkled with small white feathers : the 

 naked space surrounding the eyes is very small : 

 the plumage resembles that of the male, except in 

 the following particulars : the feathers of the breast 

 and the sides are not tinged with chesnut-brown, 

 neither do they possess the three longitudinal black 

 bands or the two white ones, as in the male : the 

 whole of the upper parts of the body are deeper 

 brown, and the black spots are more dusky and 

 extended. The young have the whole of the upper 

 parts of a deep grey-brown, with the back, the 

 wings, and tail, sprinkled with black spots ; which 

 are largest in the middle of the feathers : the fea- 

 thers of the breast, the sides, the belly, and the 

 abdomen, are transversely striped with brown, 

 yellow-ochre, and white. 



This bird inhabits the southern parts of Africa ; 

 by the colonists of the Cape of Good Hope it is 



