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Fleath-cocks, which they call Meadow-
partridges; yet I fuppofe the bird he has
figured muft be underifood to be one of
thefe. This Francolin of mine is alfo a
native of Bengal, in the Eaft Indies; for
it is very exaftly figured in a parcel of
drawings after nature, done in that country,
at the requeft of the late Dr. Mead, and
fent to him in London, about twenty years
before  his death, by a friend of the
Dodor in India. Tournefort's print is
the only figure publilhed of this bird that
I know of; but that has no defeription
with it: fo that this of mine may be ac-
counted the firft hiftory of the Francolin.
CHAP.
bruyere, qu'on appeole perdrix de prairie $.
./e crois cependant qu'on doit prendre loifeau
qVi'ii a reprefente, pour un Jiujet de le'pdce
dant il eJi ici quo/lion.  Ce metme Francolin
fe trouve aqff a' Bengale dans les grandes
lndes, car il eji tre's exaaement reprenf't!
dans un recueil de djf lins tires d'apres nature
dans le pays me'ne a la rquifition defeu M.
Plead, M. D. et qui lui avoient ete envooes
c' Londres, plus de vingt ans avant fa mort,
par tin ami qu'il avoit aux Indes.  La figure
de Tournefort e/? lae )ule, que je jacbe, qui
ait ete' publiee de cet oifrau; mais comme il
oe l'a pas acconlpagence d'une dejcfrrption, on
poute  regarder   celle-ci comme la premiere
hf/iJoire du Francolin.
* Voya. au Levant, tom. IL pag. 97.
XXXV1I.
7ihe Chinefe Quail, and the Guern-
fey Lizard.
H I S bird is here figured of its natural
bignefs: it was etched on the copper-
plate immediately from nature. I take it
to be a cock b.ed.
The bill is black: the fore part of the
head, the breaft, fides, and infides of the
wings, are of a blueifh afh colour: the
belly, thighs, and covert-feathers beneath
the tail, are of a dark reddifh orange co-
lour: the tail feathers, which are hid by
its coverts, are of the fame orange colour:
it hath a line of dufky white along the
middle of the belly: the fides of the breaft
are fpotted with black: the throat under
the bill hath a black fpot furrounded with
white, and without that a black line from
each corner of the mouth; which lines
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247.
La Caille de la Chine, et le Lezard
de Guernefey.
CE 1 oijf'au oft reprjfaenzt' ici deo J gro/-
Jeur naturelIe: il a ete' grave'j ir la
planche immediatement d'apre's natuire. Ye
crois que c'e/l le male.
Le bec c/I noir: ie devant do la teFlte, l'ylo-
mach, los co'te's et le de/frous des ailes font d'uine
couleur de cendre bloudire: le vontre, les
cuifis, et les plumes de couverture du dic//ous
de la queue font d'un cane/le 'v/tirnamt fiur
le rouge: les plumes de la queuY yui fint
cachees fous leurs cou-icrtures, fo3it do la l'In. e
couleur : il y a le G/og du niilicei Jo vevretr
une barre d'un blanc obJfiur: les cit s  I D
mach font mouchete's de noir: Ia gor-e'o oi-
defous du   bec, a une grcande mnarjue nsifL
entoure'e de blanc ; et cn debors do4J ce b&'anc,
il part deux barres noires, Aja'ooir uiw    dCe
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