212 PHASIANID.E. 



the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts devoid of black bars, though 

 in some specimens the feathers are fringed with dusky ; the back 

 and sides of the neck are rufous buff or rust-colour, each feather with 

 a rather large terminal black spot ; the feathers of the superciliary 

 stripe white with black shaft-stripes, those of the sides of the face 

 and ear-coverts whitish or pale buff tipped with black ; chin and 

 throat black; and the fore part of the neck bright rust- colour. Bill 

 black ; iris light brown ; gape, eyelids, and orbital space dull 

 crimson ; legs and feet coral-pink. 



Male. Total length 11 inches, wing 5-6, tail 2-3, tarsus 1-8. 



Female. Total length 10 inches, wing 5-4, tail 2-1, tarsus 1-6. 



Bah. N.E. India : ranging from the Garo and Naga Hills through 

 Cachar, Manipur, and Arrakan to Pegu ; also obtained near Bhamo 

 in Upper Burma. 



a. Ad. sk. Garo Hills (//. //. Godwin- Tweeddale Coll. 



Austen). 



h-f. (5 9 ad. sk. Machi, Manipur, May (A. Hume Coll. 



O. H.). 



g~r. (5 2 ad. sk. Aimole, Manipur, April {A. Hume Coll. 



0. H.). 



8. Ad. sk. Bhamo, June {E. W. Oates). Ilume Coll. 



t-v. S ad. sk. Arrakan Hills, Jan. (E. W. Hume Coll. 



Oates). 



to-u. f? 2 ad.sk. Arrakan Hills, Jan., :Mav. E. W. Oates, Esq. 



[C.]. 



z. Ad. St. Arrakan. Zoological Society. 



a'. Ad. sk. Pegu. Tweeddale Coll. 



6. Arboricola rufogularis. 



Arboricola rufipes, Hodfjs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844) ; id. 



Icon. ined. in Brit. Mu<s. no. 112 [Nepal]. 

 Arboricola rufogularis, Blyth, J. As. Soc. Bevg. xviii. p. 819 (1849) 



[Sikhim, lower range] ; id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 2-53 (1849) ; 



id. J. As. Soc. Benf/.'xxiv. p. 276 (1855) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 578 



(1864) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 159; Beavan, Ibis, 1868, p. 385; 



Hume, Str. F. v. p. 114 (1877) ; Hume 8f Davison, Str. F. vi. p. 444 



(1878) [Mooleyit,Tenafserim] ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. Ill (1879) ; 



Hume ^ Marsh. Game B. ii. p. 75, pi. (1879) ; Scully, Str. F. viii. 



p. 349 (1879) [Nepal]; Oates, B. Burmah, ii. p. 328 (1883); 



Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 393. 

 Perdix rufogularis. Gray, List Gallina Brit. Mus. p. 58 (1867) ; id. 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 267,' no. 9694 (1870). 

 Arhorophila rufogularis, Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 450 (1874) [Kumaon]. 

 Arboricola rutigularis, Blyth Sf Walden, Mamm. S,- B. Burma, p. 150 



(1875) ; Oates, ed. Hume's Nests ^ Fgys, iii. p. 4.39 (1890)_. 

 Arborophila tickelli, Hume, in Hume ^- Marsh. Game B. ii. p. 78, 



note (1879) [Mooleyit]. 



Adult male and femcde. Resemble A. intermedia, but differ in 

 having the feathers of the chin and throat rust-red, each with 

 a terminal black spot as in the female of A. torqueola. The 

 fore part of the neck uniform rust-red, or very nearly so, and 

 bordered below by a black bapd. In most of the large series of 



