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PHASIANID^. 



superciliary strijie, ear-coverts, and cheeks dull ashy grey : the chin, 

 throat, chest, and breast reddish chestnut. Total length 10-5 inches, 

 ■wing 5-2, tail 2-2, tarsus 1-6. 



Hah. Lawas Eiver, jS^orth-west Borneo. 



13. Arhoricola erythrophrys. 



Eambusicula hyperytbra, S/iarpe {nee Sharpe, 1879), Ibis, 1887, 



p. 454 [Kina Ealu]. 

 Bambusicola erythrophrys, Sharpe, Ibis, 1890, pp. 139, 284, 288, 289, 



pi. iv. ; Everett, List B. Born. p. 200 (1889). 

 Arboricola erythrophrys, Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 397. 



Adult male and female. Resemble A. hi/pen/thra, but distinguished 

 by having the lores, superciliary stripes, and sides of the face bright 

 rust-colour ; and the chin and throat blackish in the male. Iris 

 greenish brown ; bill black ; skin round the eye dull pink, that on 

 the throat brighter ; legs salmon-pink. Total length 10 inches, 

 wing 5-8, tail 1*8, tarsus 1-85. 



Bab. Kiua Balu, Xorth Borneo. 

 a. cJ ad. sk. Kina Balu, Feb. A. II. Everett, Esq. [C], 



14. Arboricola orientalis. 



Perdix orientalis, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 184 (1822) 



[Java]. 

 Oriental Quail, Lath. Gen. Hist. viii. p. 322 (1823). 

 Perdix personata, Horsf. Zool. Res. pi. 61 (1824); Gray, in Griff. 



Anim. Kingd. iii. p. 53 (1829) ; id. List GaUince Brit. Mus. p. 59 



(1867) [part]. 

 Tropicoperdix personata, Blyth, J. As. Soc. Beng. xxviii. p. 415 

 • (1859). 

 Arboricola personata, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 159. 

 Arboricola orientalis, Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 397. 



Adult. Lores and superciliary stripe white : top of the head and 

 back of the neck blackish brown ; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 rich dark brown, each feather fringed with blackish at the extremity, 

 those of the rump with a pale greyish-brown subterminal band. 

 Lesser and outer median wing-coverts and scapulars dark brown, 

 shading into dark olive-brown towards the extremity of the outer 

 ■web ; a black blotch is situated near the extremity of each feather, 

 bordered externally "with rufous, fringed -with black. Inner median 

 coverts the same, but "widely bordered with dull orange-red. Pri- 

 maries and their coverts dark brown ; secondaries and their coverts 

 the same, margined "with rufous on the outer web, the outer secon- 

 daries are also widely tipped with dull orange-red fringed with 

 black, like the inner median coverts, and have a small oblong black 

 spot on the shaft near the extremity. A dark brown band com- 

 mences behind the nostril, surrounds the eye, and passing above the 

 ear-coverts is continued down the side of the neck. Chin, throat, 

 cheeks, and ear-coverts white ; the front of the neck, as in A. hrunneo- 

 pecius, is thinly covered with feathers of the same colour. Chest 



