genera, Mackworth-Praed and Grant (32) did not accept this revision in 
reviewing the francolins of East Africa, and it is possible that further 
changes will be largely concerned with a more exact delineation of the 
distribution of species and subspecies. 
The range of most of the Asian species is extensive. This is true 
also of some of the African francolins but many of these are rather 
highly selective of habitat with the consequent development into species 
and subspecies in considerable variety. Peters lists 29 species and 69 
subspecies of African francolin and 5 species and 12 subspecies of this 
genus in Asia. The latter group, with special reference to the black 
and the gray francolins and their currently recognized range, as indi- 
cated by Peters and modified by Ripley (42) is classified as follows: 
Order Galliformes 
Family Phasianidae 
Genus Francolinus 
Species ; Common Name Distribution 
F. francolinus Western black Cyprus, Asia Minor, Syria, 
francolinus francolin and Israel east through Iraq 
and central Iran and north 
to. Transcaucasia and the 
southern and southeastern 
Caspian littoral 
F. francolinus Arabian black Baghdad to the Persian Gulf 
arabistanicus francolin and to southwestern Iran 
F. francolinus Southern Iranian South Iran from Seistan to 
-bogdanovi black francolin Iranian Baluchistan 
F, francolinus Baluchistan black Baluchistan and southern 
henrici francolin Sind, west of the Indus, in 
West Pakistan, and probably 
north to Kandahar and the 
Helmand Valley of southern 
Afghanistan and the lower 
valleys of the Northwest 
Frontier provinces 
F. francolinus Indian black Eastern Afghanistan (Jalala- 
asiae francolin bad), through the Indus 
Valley and tributary streams 
in West Pakistan eastwards 
along the foothills of north- 
ern India to central Nepal 
and Bihar, and south to 
central India, Not in the Thar 
desert of Rajasthan from Pali 
to the eastern border of 
Bahawalpur 
