FRANCOLIN. 
ning in transverse lines. The tail-feathers 
are marked in the same manner, except at their 
tips, which for an inch broad were wholly 
black. The legs and feet \vere covered with 
red scales, in colom' hke Pigeons feet ; the 
three fore toes w^ere conne6led near their bot- 
toms by membranes ; and the claws were of a 
horn-colour. I believe it to be a cock bird, 
by reason it had spurs. 
** This bird," concludes Edwards, was 
brought alive to England, from the Island of 
Cypms, in the Mediterranean Sea ; and pre- 
sented to Mr. James Leman, who lent it to 
me, to make a drawing of it : but not till it 
was dead ; though while it was fresh, it's eyes 
and feet retaining their living colour. Mr. 
Willughby, in his Ornithology, has given a 
description of the Francolin : but his seems a 
quite different bird from this of mine ; which 
I take to be, truly and properly, wliat is un- 
derstood to be the Francolin by the Italians. 
Olina, in his book of the Nature of Birds, 
Rome 1622, has given a figure of ihe Franco- 
lin ; but it is a bird altogether different from 
what I have here presented. I'ournefort, in 
his 
