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Adult Male. — General colour blackish-brown ; crown and nape 

 dull deep crimson ; fore-neck, chest, and longer under tail- 

 coverts deep brilliant crimson; cheeks and tliroat paler crimson. 

 Total length, 10-5 inches; wing, 6'6 ; tail, 2-8; tarsus, 2-3. 



Adult Female. — Differs from the 7/ia/e in having the throat pale 

 rufous, washed with crimson, and the fore-part of the neck and 

 chest reddish-chestnut. Smaller. Total length, 10-5 inches ; 

 wing, 6; tail, 2-8; tarsus, 1-9. 



Range. — Mountain forests and jungles of North Borneo. 



This splendid Wood-Partridge was first described by Dr. 

 Bowdler Sharpe, from a single female specimen obtained by 

 Mr. W. H. Treacher near the Lawas River and now in the 

 Oxford Museum. In 1891 a second female was collected by 

 Mr. Hose on the moss-clad summit of Mount Dulit, at an 

 elevation of about 5,000 feet; but it was not until 1893, when 

 Mr. Everett's collectors captured a third example of this rare 

 bi:d on the eastern slope of Mount Kina Balu, that the adi^/^ 

 male of this wonderful form of Partridge, with its brilliant 

 crimson chest and treble-spurred legs, became known. The 

 three individuals mentioned are all that have been obtained, 

 and the two latter now form part of the National Collection. 



THE FERRUGINOUS WOOD-PARTRIDGES. GENUS 

 CALOPERDIX. 



Calopcrdix^ Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 160. 

 Type, C. oculea (Temm.). 

 Tail rather short and composed of fourteen feathers ; less 

 than half the length of the wing. 



First primary flight-feather equal to the tenth, the fourth to 

 the sixth feathers being equal and longest. 



Tarsi armed in the male with one or more pairs of spurs ; 

 nail on the hind-toe rudijiientary. 



I. THE FERRUGINOUS WOOD-PARTRIDGE. CALOPERDIX OCULEA. 



Perdix oculea^ Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 408 and 732 



('815). 



