FRANCOLINUS GARIEPENSIS. 
under tail coverts light buff-orange faintly barred with umber-brown. Intersca- 
pular and back variegated with bright orange-brown, liver-brown, light buff- 
orange, and dull pearl-grey, — the buff-orange in narrow stripes, one along the 
centre of each feather, the liver-brown in transverse bars, which are both be- 
fore and behind edged with reddish orange ; the pearl-grey towards and at the 
tips of the feathers in many specimens fades into white. The lesser wing 
coverts are barred both longitudinally and transversely with buff-orange, and 
each bar is edged with liver-brown— on these feathers the pearl-grey is more 
distinct than on those of the back. Primary and secondary quill feathers 
dull umber-brown, the former finely freckled with small buff-orange spots, 
the latter with pale reddish orange bars which change into white towards the 
edges of the outer vanes, the inner vanes towards quills light orange-red ; 
the tertiaries and scapulars with a reddish orange line in the course of their 
shaft, and barred transversely with the same colour, each bar being edged 
before and behind with liver- brown, and between the edgings the colour is 
a light pearly grey, finely mottled with umber-brown. Tail umber-brown, 
with waved, transverse, reddish orange bars, the feathers, particularly at the 
tips, tinted with pearl-grey. The edge of the upper mandible towards its 
base, and the base of the lower one reddish yellow, elsewhere brownish 
red. Legs and toes a rusty buff-orange ; cla-ws brownish-red ; the base of 
the spur reddish yellow, the remainder brownish red. Eyes deep 
brownish red. F 
Form, &c. — Figure moderately robust ; head rather small ; bill much 
arched towards the point, the upper mandible considerably longer than 
the lower, and obtuse at the point. Wings rounded, and when folded reach 
a little beyond the base of the tail ; the third quill feather the longest, the 
second and fourth a little shorter, the first about an inch shorter "than the 
second ; tertiaries and scapulars nearly as long as the primaries. Tail rather 
long and rounded at the tip. Tarsi compressed, anteriorly coated with large 
scales, laterally with small scales, and behind with scales of an intermediate 
size. Toes slender, with rudimentary webs ; claws slightly curved, rather 
slender, and blunt at the point ; spur originating on the inner and posterior 
aspect of the tarsus is short, curved, and towards the point turned obliquely 
upwards. 
