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into rust-colour on the forehead and lores. A hlack bund of 

 feathers commences behind cither nostril, and surrounding the eyes 

 unite with one another at the back of the crown ; thence the 

 united bands pass down the middle of the back of the neck, dividing 

 <i rust-red patch of feathers on the nape, and are finally lost in the 

 black band which surrounds the base of the neck. A second less 

 regular black band crosses the base of the throat (in some specimens 

 it is continued towards the chin) and bounds the rust- red patch on 

 the nape, and passing widely down the side of the neck joins the one 

 round the base of the neck. Chin, upj)er part of throat, cheeks, ear- 

 coverts, and front of neck rust-coloured, the latter usually more or 

 less spotted witli black. Back, rump, and upper tail-coverts dark 

 grey, barred and fringed with black. Wing-coverts and scapulars 

 as in A. tor<jueola, but the chestnut mnrgius to the latter are less 

 defined and the subterminal black patches are wider. Chest grey. 

 Breast, belly, sides. Hanks, and under tail-coverts chestnut. Tail 

 black, barred with grey. Iris dark grey ; bill black ; feet red. 



Male. Total length 11 inche.s, wing O'ti, tail 2-2, tarsus 1-8. 



?\nuth. Total length 10 inches, wing 5-4, tail 2, tarsus 1"8. 



A quite yuintg bird has the scajiulars reddish brown, each with a 

 small white spot at the extremity of the shaft ; the chin and throat 

 ;iro white and the chest brown; otherwise the plumage is much the 

 same as that of the adult. 



Hab. Mountains of Java. 



n. Ad. St. Java. Zoological Soc. Coll. 



A. $ ad. St. Java. Lidth-de-Jeude Coll. 



<•. Juv. St. Java. Purchased. 



d, (•• 6 2 iid. sk. Java, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Java. Tweeddale Cull. 



«7, h. Ad. sk. Java. (Jould Coll. 



i. Ad. sk. Java. India Museum TP.]. 



A. Ad. sk. West Java (. I. 7?. Walhwe). Tweeddale Coif. 



I. cfad.sk. West Java. A. K. Wallace, Esq. 



[C.]. 



m. Ad. skeleton. Java. Purchased. 



10. Arboricola rubrirostris. 



Pelo])erdix rubrirostris, Utihwl. Ann. Mii.-:. Cir. Ciotoi: xiv. j). 2-11 

 (187!)) [Ml. Singalrtu, SuniatraJ ; AV(V/(. .y .Schal^ir, J.f. O. 187l», 

 p. ;ilO; Snellciiiiin, in J'cfh's Middcn-Sumalra, iv. p. 4(), pi. iii. 

 (18S7); liiitti/cofer, X. Leyd. Mm. ix. p. 78 (1887) [Piulaug, W. 

 Suniatm]. 



" Perdix vethi, S(fil."^le Snellemau, iti Veth's Midden-Sumatra, iv. 

 pp. .".0, ;il (1887). 



Arboricola rubrirostris, Grunt, Idi.s, 181):.', p. 3\)(). 



Adult w(de. Head, throat, and neck black ; a snitdl white patch on 

 the lores and chin ; a line of white spots along each side of the 

 crown, and also along the sides of the throat. The feathers giving 

 this appearance are very curious, being naked shafts supjjorting a 

 white jilume at the extremity. Back and rest of upper parts rich 

 olive-brown, barred and fringed with black, the terniimil half of 



