ry THE NATURAL HISTORY. 
The second aye of the STETRAO has 
naked legs. 
Species 10. of Moc The Francolin. Its 
legs are without feathers, and furnifhed with 
fpurs; the ftomach and throat are black; the — 
tail is wedge-fhaped. | 
The Francolin is a fcarce bird, and found only 
in warm countries, as Spain, Italy, Sicily, and 
fome of the iflands in the Mediteranean fea; in — 
Egypt, and infome parts of Afia. : 
Their flefh is fo delicate a food, that in many 
- places laws have been, made to: preferve them; 
and it is faid that the name of Francolin was. 
given to them as exprefling the freedom. which 
they enjoy in confequence of thefe laws. - 
They feed on. grain, very much like a Par- 
tridge, and may be brought up tame in aviaries s. 
but they muft have a little box to retire into, and 
fome fand and ftones fhould be fcattered in their 
partition, and then, they will breed in confine- 
ment, ‘They have a loud cry, or whiffle, which 
may be heard to a confiderable diftance; and 
their plumage is very beautiful: the feathers round. — 
the neck are of a moft pleafing orange colour. 
Species: 

