FRANCOLINUS PI LEATUS.— Smith. 
Aves. — Plate XIV. (Male.) 
F. capite supra sordide griseo, brutmeo variegato ; interscapularlbus, cervicis parte superiore lateribusque 
lucide rubro-brunueis, partis superioris plumis in medio albo strigatis, laterumque albo-marginatis ; 
dorso flavo- griseo, brunneo-umbrato ; rcmigibus primariis secundariisque brutmeis, harum margini- 
bus exterioribus albis, illarum versus basin subochreis ; striga supra subtusque oculos alba ; pcctoro, 
ventrequokpallide ocbreis, hoc fasciis gracilibus brunneis, illo maculis rubro-brunneis notatis ; pedibus 
aurantiis. 
Longitudo 13 unc. 6 lin. 
Pbedix Sepiiaena, Rep. of Exped., page 55, June 1S36. 
Colour. — The upper surface of the head is rusty grey, clouded with 
brown ; but the extent to which the brown appears depends upon the position 
of the feathers. When the latter are disposed in their natural order, little of 
the brown colour is seen ; but when they are deranged, and their brown bases 
exposed, then the proportion of the latter colour is considerable. The back 
and sides of the neck, together with the interscapulars, are intermediate 
between brownish orange and reddish brown ; the feathers of the former are 
broadly margined with white, and those of the latter are marked each with a 
broad white stripe along the centre ; in some of them the stripe is divided 
longitudinally by a narrow black line, and in others it is margined on each 
side by a brownish stripe. Back and upper tail coverts yellowish grey ; the 
former faintly clouded with brown, and the latter delicately mottled with very 
fine transverse lines of the same colour. Shoulders hair-brown, several of 
the feathers broadly edged with reddish brown, and all marked with a white 
stripe in the course of the shafts. Primary quill coverts and primary and 
secondary quill feathers chocolate brown, with yellowish white shafts ; the 
outer vanes of the primaries, towards their bases, margined' with pale sienna 
yellow or light reddish brown ; and those of the secondaries, throughout 
their whole length, with white. Over each eye, a white stripe, which terminates 
at the nape of the neck, and beneath the eye another, which ends before the ear 
coverts These stripes, in front of the eye, are separated from each other by a 
dark brown blotch. The chin, throat, and cheeks, white ; the two latter deli- 
cately spotted with pale reddish orange ; the breast and belly cream-yellow, 
the former marked with large, fawn-shaped, dark reddish brown spots, and 
