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the presence of a hindtoe, as well as by the differences in color 

 pattern. 



EXCALFACTORIA CHINENSIS CHINENSIS (Linnaeus) 



Chinese Blue-breasted Quail 



[Tetrao] chinensis Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 277 ("in 

 China, Philippinis" ; type locality restricted to Nanking, China, ex Edwards 

 apud Peters). 



Excalfactoria chinensis chinensis, Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 

 1931, p. 168 (Chiang Mai) ; 1936, p. 78 (Chiang Mai). 



While the blue-breasted quail is common enough in southern Thai- 

 land and is known to breed near Bangkok, in the North it seems to 

 occur only as a rare migrant. The sole specimen from our provinces 

 is a male taken by me at Chiang Mai, February 28, 1931. 



This bird was collected among the stubbles of a fallow ricefield. It 

 flew up from my very feet, to drop again to the ground a short dis- 

 tance away. 



It had the irides deep crimson ; the bill plumbeous, with the culmen 

 and tip of the mandible blackish ; the feet and toes bright yellow ; the 

 claws horn. 



The male of this species is so brightly colored that it need be con- 

 fused with no other small game bird in our area; it has the upper- 

 parts rufous-brown with black spots and narrow bars; the throat 

 black ; the lower neck and a streak below the eye pure white ; the breast 

 and flanks slaty blue ; the remaining underparts deep chestnut. The 

 female has the upperparts similar to those of the male; the throat 

 buffy ; the remaining underparts vinaceous-buff, barred with blackish 

 on the breast and sides of the body. 



The bright yellow feet will distinguish this quail from all similar 

 forms except the yellow-legged hemipode, which, however, has no 

 hindtoe. 



ARBOROPHILA RUFOGULARIS TICKELLI (Hume) 



Tenasserimese Rufous-throated Hill Partridge 



A[rboricola] tickelli Hume, in Hume and Marshall, The game birds of India, 

 Burmah, and Ceylon, vol. 2, 1879 [=1880], p. 78, footnote, col. pi. [11], fig. 

 of head (Mount Muleyit, Tenasserim). 



Arboricola rufogularis, de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1928, 

 p. 575 (Doi Suthep). 



Arborophila rufogularis rufogularis, de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, 1929, p. 581 (Doi Suthep). 



Arborophila rufogularis, Deignan, Journ. Siam. Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, 

 p. 168 (Doi Suthep). 



Arborophila rufogularis tickelli, de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, 1934, p. 275 (Doi Suthep). — Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. 

 Suppl., 1936, p. 79 (Doi Suthep).— Rilet, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, 

 p. 62 (Doi Ang Ka, Doi Suthep, Doi Langka, Doi Hua Mot). 



