FRANCOLIN^ 
Gesner, the bird known at Venice by the name 
of Francolin, appears to be a kind of Kazel 
Grous. The NeapoHtan Francohn is larger 
than a Common Hen ; and, indeed, the length 
of it's legs, bill, and neck, will not allow iis to 
regard it as either a Hazel Groiis, or a Franco- 
lin. All that we know of the Francolin of 
Ferrara is, that it has red feet, and lives on 
fish. The bird of Spirzbergen, which has 
been called Francolin, receives also the appel- 
lation of thp Beach Runner; because it never 
strays far from the shore, where it picks up 
Grey Worms, and Shrimps, for it's subsist- 
ence : it is no larger than a Lark. The Fran- 
colin which Olina figures and describes, is the 
one of which I am to treat. That of Ed- 
wards differs from it in some respe6ls; and 
appears to be exaftly the same bird with the 
Francolin of Tournefort, which also resem- 
bles that of Fcrrai a, since it is found on the 
sea-coast, and in marshy situaticnis. Our's 
seems to differ from these three last, and even 
from that of Urisson •: not only in tlie co- 
lour of it's plumage, and <iven of it's 'bill, 
but by the si/e and form of it's tail ; winch is 
longer, in Brisson's figure, more spreail In 
our's, 
