(Pslir
FRANCO LINUS P [ LEATUS.—S mith.
Aves.—Plate XIV. (Male.1®'
F. capite supra sordide griseo, brunneo variegato; interscapularibus, cervicis parte superiore lateribusque
lucid& rubro-brunneis, partis superioris plumis in medio albo strigatis, laterumque albo-marginatis;
dorso flavo-griseo, brunneo-umbrato; remigibus primariis secundariisque brunneis, harum margini-
bus exterioribus albis, illarum versus basin subochreis; striga supra subtusque oculos albd; pectore,
ventreque pallide ochreis, hoc fasciis gracilibus brunneis, illo maculis rubro-brunneis notatis; pedibus
aurantiis.
Longitudo 13 unc. 6 lin.
Perdix Sephaena, Rep. of Exped., page 5 5 , June 1836.
Colour.—The upper surface of the head is rusty grey, clouded with
brown ; but the extent to which the brown appears depends upon the position
of the feathers. When the latter are disposed in their natural order, little of
the brown colour is seen; but when they are deranged; and their brown bases
exposed, then the proportion of the latter colour is considerable. The back
and sides of the neck, together with the interscapulars, are intermediate
between brownish orange and reddish brown; the feathers of the former are
broadly margined with white, and those of the latter are marked each with a
broad white stripe along the centre; in some of them the stripe is divided
longitudinally by a narrow black line, and in others it is margined on each
side by a brownish stripe. Back and upper tail coverts yellowish grey; the
former faintly clouded with brown, and the latter delicately mottled with very
fine transverse lines of the same colour. Shoulders hair-brown, several of
the feathers broadly edged with reddish brown, and all marked with a white
stripe in the course of the shafts. Primary quill coverts and primary and
secondary quill feathers chocolate brown, with yellowish white shafts ; the
outer vantes of the primaries, towards their bases, margined with pale sienna
yellow, or light reddish brown; and those of the secondaries, throughout
their whole leng th, with white. Over each eye, a white stripe, which terminates
at the nape of the neck, and beneath the eye another, which ends before the ear
coverts. These stripes, in front of the eye, are separated from each other by a
dark brown blotch. The chin, throat, and cheeks, white; the two latter delicately
spotted with pale reddish orange ; the breast and belly cream-yellow,
the former marked with large, fawn-shaped, dark reddish brown spots, and