Class Aves Rank Species | Phylum Chordata Subfamily Perdicinae | |
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Similar Scleroptila, Red‑winged francolin, Grey‑winged francolin, Shelley's francolin, Hartlaub's spurfowl |
The Orange River francolin (Scleroptila gutturalis) is a species of bird in the family Phasianidae found in grassland and woodland in Africa. In the taxa from the northern part of its distribution (Ethiopia, South Sudan, Somalia, Uganda and Kenya), the neck-line does not reach the eye and the belly is whitish. In the southern taxa (Angola, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa and Lesotho) the neck-line reaches the eye and the belly is buff. This has led some authorities to treat them as separate species: The Archer's or acacia francolin (S. gutturalis with subspecies lorti) in the north, and the Orange River francolin (S. levaillantoides with subspecies jugularis) in the south.

English pointer working orange river francolin



References
Orange River francolin Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA