THE COMMON FRANCOLIN. 
Ill 
mired for its fine plumage. It is not a large spe- 
cies, the male scarcely exceeding twelve inches in 
length ; the colouring is black, white, rufous, and 
yellowish-brown, disposed in decided and contrast- 
ed markings of large patches, spots, or bars, but yet 
so distributed as to want all harshness, and to have 
a chaste and blended appearance. The female wants 
all the deep black and white markings of the male, 
as well as the rufous collar; the ground colour of the 
plumage is a yellowish-brown, waved and barred 
with umber-bromi, and having the markings of the 
wings and tail nearly the same as in the male, but of 
a paler colour. 
Our next bird is a very singularly formed species 
It is 
