FRAN CO LIN US NAT A LENS IS. — (Smith.)* 
Aves. — Plate XIII. (Male.) 
F. capite supra brunneo, fusco-tseniolato; fronte superciliis, capitis lateribusque albis, maculis brunneis 
notatis; cervice colli lateribusque brunneis albo-strigatis ; dorso humerisque flavo-brimneis, fusco 
subochreoque variegatis ; mento albo, brunneo- notato ; gutture, pectore, abdomineque nigro-brunneis ; 
fasciis maculisque albis atque irregularibus variegatis, plumis albo-marginatis. Cauda davo-brunnca, 
fusco-taeniolatd ; rostro rubro-aurantio ; pedibus aurantiis ; oculis fuscis. 
Longitudo 13 unc. 
Colour, &c. — The upper surface of the head dark wood-brown, finely 
barred with umber-brown ; the front, the eyebrows, and the sides of the head 
white and closely speckled with umber-brown ; space immediately behind 
each eye, and the ear-coverts light brown ; back and sides of the neck dark 
umber-brown, and variegated with short white streaks, from most of the 
feathers being edged with white : some of the feathers of these parts are 
marked, besides, with one or more imperfect white bars, and many of them 
have the shaft of a bright chesnut hue. Back and shoulders yellowish brown, 
and freely variegated with umber-brown and sienna yellow markings : — the 
umber-brown in the form of longitudinal stripes along the middle of the 
feather, and of delicate, zig-zag bars across the vanes : — the sienna yellow, 
between the bars, disposed in the form of small stripes and irregular blotches. 
The under parts are mottled-white and blackish brown : on the chin and 
upper part of the throat, white is the predominant colour, and the dark 
markings consist of small oval spots, one near the centre of each feather : on 
the breast and belly the light and dark colours are nearly in equal propor- 
tions, the central portion of each feather is black-brown, more or less 
completely broken into angular bars by a series of irregular white spots 
which occur on each side of the shaft, the margins and tips of all the feathers 
white ; vent and under tail-coverts pale yellowish brown, variegated with 
imperfect rusty-white and umber-brown bars ; thighs rusty-white, irregularly 
barred with pale brown. Primary quill coverts and the quill-feathers 
broccoli-brown : — the outer vanes of the former and of some of the primary 
quill feathers finely freckled with pale cream-yellow ; the outer vanes of the 
innermost primaries partially barred with light yellowish brown, and the 
inner vanes faintly and sparingly speckled with the same colour; the 
secondary and most of the tertiary quill feathers yellowish brown, each with 
several broad umber-brown bars, the spaces between which are crossed by 
numerous undulated lines of umber-brown. Tail light yellowish brown, 
crossed with numerous fine zig-zag umber-brown lines. The culmen between 
the nostrils, the membrane covering the latter, and the edges of the mandibles 
* South African Quarterly Journal, 2nd Series, No. I. Part ii. page 48. November, 1833. 
