Perdix bicalcarata, Zool.3* Ind. p. 25. pi* 14» CEYLON P.
D escription.
Female.
P lace.
C I Z E not mentioned : length (in the plate) about feven inches:
in appearance a trifle bigger than a Quail. The bill is red j
from thence to the eyes, and for fome fpace round them, naked
and red : the head variegated with black and white: neck,
breaft, upper part of the back, and wing coverts, black; each
feather marked down the middle with a fagittal white ftreak : the
lower part of the back is ferruginous : the tail rounded, brown:
the legs red, naked, and furnilhed with two long lharp fpurs, the
one above the other *.
The female has the head varied with black and afh-colour:
breaft, back, and wings, rufty brown; the feathers of the back
and wings marked with brown in the middle, and thofe of the
breaft margined with luteous: the tail brown : the legs without
fpurs.
This fpecies inhabits Ceylon, being taken near Columio, in that
ifland. The Cingalefe call it Haban-kukella.
it fame cannot be faid of their Cartridges. I doubt much whether we ought
“ not rather to call them Wood Hens ; for they are of the fame fize, and much
“ about the fame colour. They are fufficiently diftinguiihed from other birds
“ 'o f this kind, by two ftrong fpurs to their feet.” — Adanfon’s Senegal, 8vo.
p. 44.
* On one of the legs there appears only a Jingle fpur ; which we may fuppofe
owing to the miftake of the draughtfman, as the circumftance is not elfewhere
mentioned.
Le Perdrix rouge de Madagafcar, Son. Voy. Ind, vol. ii. p. 169.
Cj I Z E of the Common Partridge. The bill yellow : irides of a
fine red: the general colour of the plumage dirty re,d brown;
the top of the head and hind part of the neck deepeft, and moft
inclined to brown: legs of a fine red, and furnilhed with two
fpurs behind.
Inhabits Madagafcar.
Le Gorge.nue, Buf. oif. ii. p. 444.
ALL that is faid of this bird is, that it is lefs variegated than
the Francolin: the throat and fore part of the neck bare of
feathers, being only covered with a red fkin : the tail fpreads out
like a fan: the legs red, and furnilhed with a double fpur, as the
laft fpecies.
One of thefe was alive at Paris j but fufficient obfervation had
not been taken of it to be enabled to fay more than the above,
further than it ufed to perch.
Tetrao Francolinus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 275. 10.
--------Orientalis Haffelq. Voy. p. 278. 43.
Le Francolin, Brif. orn. i. p. 245. pi. 23. f. 2. — Buf. oif. ii. p. 438.— FI,
enl. 147. 148.
Francolino (Attagen Aldrov.) Rail Syn. p. 54. 4. — Olin. see. pi. in p. 33.—
Will. orn. p. 174. pi. 31.
Francolin, Tourn. Voy. 4to, vol. i. pi. in p. 412. — D° in 8vo, vol. ii. pi. 1.
p. III.—Edits. pi. 246.— Gent. Mag. vol. xlii. pi. in p. 112.
Br. Muf.
tjP H I S beautiful fpecies is as large as the Common Partridge,
and meafures in length twelve inches and a quarter. The
10 bill
4;
BROWN
AFRICAN P.
D escription.
Place.
BAREtNECKED
P.
D escription*
6.
FRANCOLIN P.
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