RED-NECKED FRANCOLIX, 



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called a Pheasant : it lives in woods, and at the 

 rising and setting of the sun utters its cry : its food 

 consists of the roots of bulbous plants, insects, and 

 their larvae: the female deposits her eggs in a rough 

 nest, amongst bushes : the young remain with the 

 parents till the breeding season. 



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RED-NECKED FRANCOLIN. 

 (Franeolinus rubricoUis.) 



Fr. corpore Jusco-maculato, crisso albo, orbitis gulaque nudis ru" 



bris, strigd supra et infra oculos alba ; pedes rubris. 

 Francolin with the body spotted with fuscous ; the vent white ) 



the orbits and throat naked and red 3 above and beneath the 



eyes a white stripe 5 feet red. 

 Perdix rubricollis. Lath, Ind, Orn. 2. 648. 13. — Gmel. Sj/st. 



Nat. 1. 758. 34. 

 La Perdrix rouge d'Afrique. Btiffi Ois, 2, 444. — Biif. PL Enl. 



180. 



Red-necked Partridge. Lath, Gen. Syn. 4. 771. 13. 



Latham thus describes this bird. Size of a 

 male Partridge : length thirteen inches : beak short, 

 red : round the eye a bare space, pointed before 

 and behind : chin and throat bare and red : the 

 general colour of the plumage brown, spotted above 

 with darker brown : over the eye a white streak ; 

 beneath another, which bounds the upper part of 

 the bare space on the throat, curving downwards y 



