FRANCOLTNU S GARIE PE N SI S . Male
(Ave s_Pla.te.8 3)
A ves.—P late L X X X III.-^ -M ale.
F. fronte, capite, cerviceque superne rubro-brunneis, plumis rubro-aurantio-marginatis; cervice fasciis
duabus nigro-brunneis albo-maculatis notata, fasciê. superiore ad basin cervicis desinente; dorso
aurantio-brunneo, nigro-brunneo, aurantio, et griseo variegato; gula guttureque superne albis; pec-
tore rubro-aurantio, subflavo, et griseo variegato, plumis fasciolis nigro-brunneis notatis; ventre,
flavo-aurantio, aurantio-rubroque strigato; tarsis pedibusque flavo-aurantiis; rostro brunneo-rubro
versus basin flavo; oculis brunneo-rubris.
Longitudo e rostri apice ad basin caudee 14 unc.; caudee 3 unc. 9 lin.
C olour.-—The forehead, the upper surface of the head, and the hack of
the neck dull reddish brown, all the feathers edged with pale rusty orange,
and some of them towards the back marked in the course of the shaft with
a stripe of a like colour, the proportion of the light tint greatest towards the
interscapulars. The sides of the neck are variegated with two arched liver-
brown bars mottled with white, the upper one originating at the outer
cauthus of the eye, the other at the base of the lower jaw ; and they are
separated from each other by a rusty orange stripe sparingly mottled with
umber-brown. The superior of these arches terminates towards the base of
the neck, the other joins its fellow of the opposit&side, and forms a dark
semicircle in front of the neck, the convexity of which is backwards; the uppermost
arch is separated from the parts of the hind head and neck already
described by a rusty orange band sparingly dotted with brown. The chin
and part of the throat anterior to the dark semicircle white, and the front and
sides of the neck below it, as also the breast a colour intermediate between
orpiment and reddish orange, variegated with longitudinal bars of light cream-
yellow, one on each feather, some of them occupying nearly the entire of the
outer vane, and broken by narrow transverse liver-brown bars ; the tips dull
pearl-grey. Belly mottled with irregular blotches of bright buff-orange, and
a colour intermediate between orpiment and reddish orange; thighs and