BIRDS 
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Little Long-tailed Dove {CEna ca].>enm). 
Eik. 
Length 9 inches. A remarkably pretty bird ; back of head and wing- 
coverts light slate gray ; back gray-brown ; chin and throat deep black ; 
breast white ; tail very long and slate-coloured ; beak and legs red ; 
under wing and secondaries dull brick red ; iris brown. 
Lichtenstein’s Sand Grouse {Pterodes Ikhtenstelni). 
Habr Heshi. 
Light brown with black tips to wings ; colour of back and neck like hen 
pheasant ; breast white ; sides of body black ; iris brown ; bill and feet 
orange ; flight like partridge. 
Sand Grouse {Pterodes decoratus). 
Okoto. 
Feet gray ; bill horn colour ; colour sandy ; female barred above and spotted 
below with black ; throat dirty white. 
Sand Grouse (Pterodes exustus). 
Berbera ; Milmil. 
GALLING (Game Birds). 
Bare-throated Francolin (Pternistes infuscatus). 
Foot of Gerato Pass ; Gulis Mountains. 
Length of skin, 15 inches. Wattles yellow; brown back streaked with 
white ; legs black ; breast speckled with brown and red brown ; lores 
red. 
Kirk’s Francolin (Francolinus hirki). 
Sogsoda. 
Iris brown. 
Lort Phillips’ Francolin {Francolinus lorti). 
Waggar Mountains (9,000 feet). 
White patch on sides of neck, spotted with black ; deep chestnut patches 
on feathers of fore-neck ; spots on breast deep chestnut ; throat white ; 
back of head and round eye chestnut. Length 12*5 inches. 
Francolin {Francolinus castamericollis). 
Sheik Mohamed. 
Iris brown. 
Harlequin Quail {Coturnix delegorquei). 
Very plentiful at Fik. 
An extremely handsome bird. Length of skin, 6 inches. Rich chestnut 
and black breast ; mottled brown back streaked with yellowish-white ; 
throat white, having a black marking on it ; legs dull yellow ; iris brown. 
Vulture-like Guinea-fowl {Acryllium vulturinum). 
Common in the Boorgha country, West Somaliland and in Central 
Ogaden. 
A strikingly handsome bird. Head and neck naked like a vulture, and 
cobalt blue ; back of neck has soft brown velvety feathers ; breast feathers 
pointed and coloured blue and black with a white streak ; back and tail 
black covered with white spots ; wings black and purple. 
