the draughtsman represented it thus in ignorance, but it would be interesting to know if this, one of the very few swamp-haunting birds in the pheasant family, ever does voluntarily go into water in the wild state. The keeper of the aviary in which a specimen of this species was confined in the London Zoo told me that he had seen it standing in water. Distribution The Sukla Phanta Wildlife Reserve in Nepal represents the western limit of its distribution. Gallery References External links BirdLife Species Factsheet: Swamp Francolin swamp francolin Birds of Bangladesh Birds of Nepal Birds of India Birds of Eastern Himalaya swamp francolin Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN