174 i.t.oyd's natural history. 



Tropicoperdix charltoni^ Blyth, J. As. Soc. Beng. xxvlii. p. 415 



(1859)- 

 Arborkola charltoni, Hume and Marshall, Game Birds of India, 



ii. p. 93, pi. (1879) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. 



p. 221 (1893). 

 Adult Male and Female. — Differ chiefly from the sexes of T. 

 chloropus in having the upper-parts finely mottled with black 

 and marked with irregular buff spots and bars ; a black band 

 on the sides and base of the neck ; the upper half of the chest 

 deep chestnut; and the flank-feathers regularly barred with 

 black and buff. Total length, 11 inches; wing, d'T^ ; tail, 2*5 ; 

 tarsus, I •6. 



Range. — The hill-jungles of the Malay Peninsula from Pinang 

 southwards, Sumatra, and North Borneo. Reported also from 

 Bangkok in Siam and the South Tenasserim Hills. 



THE CRIMSON-HEADED WOOD-PARTRIDGES. GENUS 

 H^MATORTYX. 



HcemaforfyXy Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 266. 



Type, II. safiguiniceps, Sharpe. 



Tail short and rounded, composed of twelve feathers, and less 

 than half the length of the wing. 



First primary flight-feather equal to the tenth, fifth slightly 

 the longest. Feet armed with three pairs of spurs in the male 

 (none in the female) ; hind-toe with a small but well-developed 

 claw. 



Sexes different. 



The only species known is 



I. THE CRIMSON -HEADED WOOD-PARTRIDGE. H^MATORTVX 

 SANGUINICEPS. 



Hcematortyx safigiiiniceps, Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, P- 266 ; Gould, 

 B. Asia, vi. pi. 70 (1879) [ ? ] ; Ogilvie-Giant, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xxii. pp. 222 and 560 (1893); id. Ibis, 1894, p. 

 374, pi. X. [c^]. 



