FRANCO LINUS SUBTORQUATUS.— Smith. 
Aves. — Plate XV. (Male.) 
F. capite supra sordid^ badio, griseo-umbrato et macuKs brunneis variegato ; cervicis parte superiore 
, lateribusque oehreis ; dorso, caudaque sordide subrufis brunneo-fasciatis ; plumarum racliidibus 
albis ; oculo inter teeuias duas nigras, superiore post aurem desinente inferiorc ad guttur porrecta, et 
cum inferiore lateris adversi lunulam formanto ; gula, guttureque subflavis ; pectore, abdomineque 
subalbis brunneo-fasciatis ; rostro sordide brunneo ; pedibus flavis ; oculis rubro-brunneis. 
Longitudo 10 unc. 
Perdix Coqui, Rep. of Exped. page 55, June, 1836. 
Colour. — The upper aspect of the head rufous brown, faintly clouded with 
lavender purple, and obscurely spotted with dusky brown ; the eyebrows, the 
bases of the ear coverts, and the back and sides of the neck, towards the 
head, pale ochry red ; the tips of the ear coverts bright rufous, and the 
feathers immediately surrounding the angles of the mouth rusty white. The 
side of the head is crossed by two fine black lines, the one above, the other 
below the eye ; the former terminates on the side of the neck, about three 
quarters of an inch behind the ear coverts ; the latter, which has its origin at 
ihe angle of the mouth, descends towards the throat, and, with the corre- 
sponding one ot the opposite side, forms a narrow lunated collar across the 
tlnoat. The lower part of the neck, in front of the interscapulars, clear 
rufous, with some of the hindermost feathers tipt faintly with white, in 
addition to being marked with a brown bar upon each vane ; the ground 
colour of the back, the shoulders, the secondary quill coverts, the tertiary 
quill leathers and the tail, intermediate between rufous and clear rufous 
brown, with each of the feathers of the back marked by a rusty white stripe 
in the course of the shalt, and by several broad, incomplete dark brown bars 
on each vane; the centre of some of the bars much lighter than the circum- 
ference. The shoulder feathers and the secondary wing coverts are variegated 
somewhat in the same manner, only much more delicately, the centre stripes 
being very slender, and the transverse bars narrow and less distinctly 
defined ; — several of the coverts are, besides, tipt with a yellowish white 
colour. The tertiary quill feathers are marked, either with uniform black- 
brown bars, or with a series of brown blotches upon each vane, the circum- 
ferences of which are much darker than the centres ; the tail is also barred 
nearly after the same fashion. The primary wing coverts and the primary 
and secondary quill feathers are pale umber brown, the outer vanes of the 
