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specimens from Mooleyit this black band is absent; but in some 

 belonging to each sex it is represented by intermittent blault spots 

 at the extremities of some of tlie rust-red neck-feathers at the base 

 of tlie neck, while in one female specimen it is as strongly developed 

 as in any from Sikhim. The Tenasserim birds have received the 

 name of A. tickeUi, and are said to bo " distinctly and constantly 

 larger than the Himalayan " ; but this is not the case, and it 

 is impossible to consider them even subspecifically distinct. 



Male. Total length 11 inches, wing 5-6, tail 2-3, tarsus 1-7. 



Ftmale. Total length 10-5 inches, wing 5-4, tail 21, tarsus l-o. 



Hab. Lower outer ranges of the Himalayas, from Kumaon through 

 Nepal and Sikhim as far east as the Laphla Hills north of the 

 Darrung Dist. ; also occurs in the higher ranges of Tenasserim, on 

 Mooleyit. 



a, h. Ad. sk. Almorah, Oct. Hume Coll. 



c-e. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



[P-]- 



/. Ad. sk. Nepal. Gould Coll. 



5r.cJad.sk. Nepal Valley, June (j:.Se!^A/). Hume Coll. 



h-r. cS $ ad. sk. Sikhim, Jsm. to April (i. Hume Coll. 



MamlelU). 



«-M. 6 2 ad. sk. Native Sikhim, March, Dec. Hume Coll. 



(Z. MamMU). 



v-x. Ad. sk. ;Monj.>-plu>o, Feb., March. Hume Coll. 



y-d'. Ad. sk. Darjeeling. Hume Coll. 



e'. Ad. sk. Darjeeling. Gould Coll. 



f'-x'. (S $ ad. sk. Mooleyit, Jan., Feb. ( W. Da- Hume Coll. 



vison ) . 



7. Arboricola gingica. 



La Perdrix de Gingi, Sunnerat, Toy. Ind. Orient, ii. p. IG? (1782) 



[male only]. 

 Giniri Partridge, Lath. Gen. Sun. ii. p. 773 (1783) : id. Gen. Hist. 



viii. p. 278 (1823). 

 Tetrao gingicus, Gmel. >S. N. i. p. 700 (17881. 

 Perdix gingiea, Laf/i. hul Orn. ii. p. 618 (1790) ; £onn. Tabl. 



Encycl. Meth. i. p. 212 (1791) ; Temm. Pit/, et Gall. iii. pp. 410 & 



733 (I8I0); Vkill. X. Diet. d'Hi.'it. Xaf. xxv. p. 197 (1817) ; 



Step/i. ill Sliatc'g Gen. Zoul. xi. p. 3ol (1819). 

 Gorget Partridge, Lat/i. Gen. Hist. viii. p. 302 (1823). 

 Perdix seutata, Grai/, in Griff", ed. Cvr. iii. p. 54 (1829). 

 Arboricola gingiea, Bli/t/i, //.is, 1870, p. 174; Grant, //.(>, 1892, 



p. 395, pi. ix. 



Upper ])arts as in ^1. rvfoijularis, but the head browner, with a 

 broad white supercilium spotted with black ; throat and sides of the 

 neck pale ferruginous, with elongate black spots, not transversely 

 oval as in A. raforialaris : lower part of the front of the neck black, 

 forming a triangular patch, which is bordered below with a white 

 semicircle, and this by a broader semicircle of deep maroon colour ; 

 lower parts ashy, passing to Avhite on the middle of the belly, the 

 feathers on the flanks being margined laterally with ferruginous. 



