214 PHASIANID^. 



Wing 5 inches. {Bhjth, from specimen in the Leyden iluseum 

 marked " Coromaudel.") 



Hah. ? Philippines ; ?? Island of Luzon. 



8. Arboricola mandellii. 



Arborophila mandellii, Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 449 (1874) [Bhotan 



Doars], iii. p. 262, pi. i. (1875). 

 Arboricola mandellii, Hmne 4" Marsh. Game B. ii. p. 83, pi. (1879) ; 



Hume, Str. F. viii. p. Ill (1879) ; Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 394. 



Adult male and female. Differ from the male of ^. torqueola in 

 having the top of the head, lores, space in front of the ej'e, and nape 

 dark chestnut ; the back and sides of the neck rust-red, shading into 

 chestnut towards the ijack, with a black spot at the extremity 

 of most of the feathers ; the feathers of the back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts only fringed with blackish ; the edges to the lesser and 

 median wing-coverts and scapulars not so wide and much paler ; a 

 grey sui>erciliary stripe commencing above the middle of the eye 

 and dividing the top of the head and nape from the back and sides 

 of the neck ; cheeks and ear-coverts rust-red, spotted with black ; 

 the chin, thi'oat, and upper half of the fore neck uniform rust-red, 

 bounded by a white and then a black band ; the chest rich chestnut ; 

 and the middle of the breast and l)elly grey. 



Male. Total length 11 inches, wing 5-4, tail 2-2, tarsus 1-6. 



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



Hab. Lower hiUs of Bhotan and Native tSiklum. 



a. Ad. sk. Bhotan Doars, April (Z. Mau- Hume Coll. (Type of 



delli). the species.) 



b-l. 6 ? ad. sk. Native Sikhim, Feb., March, Hume Coll. 

 April, Oct., Dec. (i. Man- 

 delli). 



i). Arboricola javanica. 



Javan Partridge, Broum, 111. Zool. p. 40, pi. 17 (1776) ; Lath. Gen. 



Syn. ii. p. 775 (1783) ; id. Gen. Hist. viii. p. 308 (1823). 

 Tetrao javanicus, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 761 (1788). 

 Perdix iavanica, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 651 (1790); Bonn. Tabl. 



Encycl. Meth. i. p. 211, pi. 96. fig. 1 (1791); Teinm. Pig. et 



Gall. iii. pp. 404 & 732 (1815) ; Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxv. 



p. 225 (1817); Stej^h. in Shaw's Geti. Zool. xi. p. 355 (1819); 



Temm. PI. Col. v. pi. 34 [no. 148] (1823) ; Less. Traite d'Orn. 



p 506 (1831); Gray, List Gallince Brit. ili»s. p. 59 (1867) ; id. 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 268, no. 9702 (1870). 

 Rust-Bellied Partridge, Lath. Gen. Hist. viii. p. 298 (1823). 

 Arborophila javanica, Gray, List Gall. B. iii. p. 38 (1844) ; Nicholson, 



Lbis, 1882, p. 69 [Preanger Regencies]. 

 Arboricola javanica, Blyth, Ibis, 18G7, p. 159; Grant, Ibis, 1892, 



p. 396. 

 Pel operdix javanica, Meyer, Vog.-Skel. pt. xi. pi. ci. (1886). 



Adult male and female. Top of the head reddish brown, shading 



