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DOUBLE-SPURRED FRANCOLIN. 
Chcetopus Adansonii, Swains. 
Feathers of the body beneath white on the sides, black varied 
with white down the middle, and with a rufous stripe on 
each lateral margin : crown brown, immaculate, margined 
by black and white lines ; male with two spurs on the tarsus. 
Perdix Adansonii, Tem. Hist. Nat. Gallin , iii. p. 305. 717. — 
Perdix bicalcarata ? Auctorum. 
We have been told that "this species (of which the 
only specimens we have yet seen are from Senegal) 
has been mistaken, by the London ornithologists, 
for the C. Clccppertonii, which, if thefigure in the Atlas 
of M. Riippell be correct, is a very different species. 
Whether it is the Perdix bicalcarata of Limuean 
writers cannot possibly be made out, as their de- 
scription, successively copied one from another, is too 
loose, and too inapplicable to our bird, to admit of 
amalgamation. Even that by M. Temminck, ad- 
mirable as it is, and drawn up with a precision well 
deserving imitation, offers some slight differences 
from ours : the crown of the head, for instance, is 
termed “ roux" whereas, in all our specimens, it is 
of the same dark brown as the rest of the body ; 
