208 PHASIAXID^. 



Tendong, Sikhim] ; Marshall, Ibis, 1884, p. 423 [Chamba] ; Grant, 



Ibis, 1892, p. 392. 

 Hyloperdix torqueola, Sundevall, Tent. p. 116 (1872) ; Nichols, ed. 



SundevaU's Tent. p. 203 (1889). 

 Arboricola torqueolus, Hume, Str. F. viii. p. Ill (1879) ; Scully, 



Str. F. viii. p. 319 (1879) [Nepal] ; Hume S,- Marsh. Game B. ii. 



p. 09, pi. (1879). 



Adult male. Top of the head bright chestnut, shading into rusty 

 red on the lores. Feathers of the nape partly rust-red and partly 

 white, with a wide black band down the middle. Upper back 

 olive-brown, fringed and barred with black ; lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts the same, but each feather ornamented in addition 

 with a triangular or heart-shaped black patch situated near the 

 extremity. Lesser and m.dian wing-coverts and scapulars pale 

 olive-brown, widely margined on the sides with chestnut ; the 

 latter and some of the median coverts with a subterminal black 

 patch and tipped with chestnut. Primaries and their coverts 

 brownish black, slightly margined with rust-colour at the extremity. 

 Secondaries the same, but with the outer half of the outer web 

 chestnut shading into buff at the extremity and dotted here and 

 there with blackish brown ; secondary coverts with the whole outer 

 web chestnut and the inner blackish brown. Ear-coverts bright 

 rust-red; superciliary stripe, sides of the face, chin, and throat 

 black (in some specimens the superciliary stripe is edged superiorly 

 and the throat-feathers narrowly margined with white) ; a narrow 

 white band, commencing at the base of the lower mandible, borders 

 the sides of the chin and throat ; behind the ear-coverts, on the side 

 of the neck, lies a patch of rust-coloured feathers spotted with black; 

 fore part and rest of the sides of the neck black, narrowly margined 

 with white and divided from the grey chest by a wide white band. 

 Middle of breast and belly white ; feathers of the sides and flanks 

 grey, widely margined on either web with chestnut and ornamented 

 by a narrow white shaft-stripe or spot. Thighs and shorter under 

 tail-coverts a mixture of olive-grey and buff, barred with black and 

 spotted occasionally with white ; longer under tail-coverts black 

 tipped with white. Tail-feathers olive-brown, irregularly marked 

 with black and with au ill-defined subterminal black bar. Bill 

 black ; orbital skin crimson ; iris brown or reddish brown ; legs 

 and feet pale violet or flesh-colour. Total length 11-8 inches, 

 wing 6, tail 2-7, tarsus 1-7. 



Young males have a white spot at the extremity of the grey 

 chest-feathers ; the sides and flanks also have white spots and are 

 almost devoid of chestnut margins ; and the outer webs of the 

 primaries are margined with rufous buff. Orbital skin blue-grey, 

 tinged with red. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in having the top of the 

 head brown or olive-brown, each feather with a black shaft-stripe ; 

 the wing-coverts more or less mottled with black ; the ear-coverts 

 olive-brown ; the superciliary stripes, sides of the face, chin, throat, 

 and neck rust-coloured or rufous buff, each feather with a terminal 

 black spot ; a rust-red baud separating the neck and chest, which is 



