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and sides of breast brownish ^rey, each feather black or mottled 

 with black towards the base ; middle of breast and belly whitish ; 

 sides and Hanks grey, somewhat irregularly and widely barred with 

 white and black, and tinged and fringed with rufous buff at the 

 extremity ; under tail-coverts black, tipped with white. Tail dark 

 brown. Iris pale reddish yellow ; legs and feet the same ; bill appears 

 to have been reddish brown, and the orbital and gular skin scarlet. 

 Total length 11 inches, wing 5"9, tail 2-5, tarsus 1-8. 

 Jlab. Mountains of East Java. 



a. Ad. sk. Province of Blambangan, East India Museum [P.]. 



.lava (7'. Uorsfield). (Tjpe of the species.) 



15. Arboricola sumatrana. 



Perdix personata, Gray (nee Ilorsf.), Lut GaUimc Brit. Mus. p. 59 

 {18b7) [part., Sumatra]; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 2ti8, no. 9703 (1870). 



Arboropbila personata, Niehulson, Ibis, 1883, p. i'o5 [Central Sumatra, 

 3000 ft.]. 



Arborophila sumatrana, Grant, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6) viii. p. 1:97 

 (1891). 



Arboricola sumatrana, Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 398. 



Adult. Itesembles A. onentalis, but differs in having the lores 

 pale brownish; no white superciliary stripe; the top of the head 

 golden brown tipped with dark brown ; the back and upper parts 

 golden brown, fringed and strongly barred with black ; the chest 

 and breast uniform grey, shading into white on the belly ; the side 

 and flank-feathers with broad regular three-fold bands of black, white, 

 and black at the extremity ; the under tail-coverts white, black 

 towards the base, and the tail-feathers dark brown clouded with 

 golden brown. (Fonale) Iris dark brown ; bill black ; legs and feet 

 red ; wattle round eye scarlet : skin of neck scarlet (below feathers). 

 Total length 11 inches, wing 5-8, tail 2-2, tarsus VS. 



Hah. Mountains of Central Sumatra, 3000 feet. 



<t. .\d. sk. Sumatra. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



(Type of the species.) 



1<). Arboricola chloropus. 



Tropicoperdix chloropus, Tick., Blyth, J. As. Soc. B. xxviii. p. 41o 

 (1,8-yj). 



Arb()ric't)la chloropus, Tick. J. As. Soc. B. xxviii. p. 4o3 (1859) 

 ;^Ainlierst]: Blyth, Ihis, 1807, p. 160; Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 482 

 (1874) [I'ahpo(>n]; Blyth ^- Walden, Cut. Mamm. ^- B. Burm. 

 p. loO (l87o) Ziimmee R.]; Hume >.y Dari-ion, Str. J-', vi. p. 444 

 (1878) [N. I'll; Central Teuasseriml; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. Ill 

 (1879) ; Hume Sf Marsh. Game B. ii. p. 91, pi. (1879) [Tonghoo]; 

 Binyham, Str. F. ix. p. 195 (1880) [Thoungveen Vallev]; Oates, 

 Str. F. x. p. 230 (1882) [Pegu]; id. />'. Burmah, ii. p. 326 (1883) 

 [E. slopes of Pegu Hills, Coclim China] ; Grant. Ibis, 1892, p. 398. 



PLtvnicoptidix chloropu.*, Blyth, Jide Hartlauh, Arch. f. Natiiryes. 

 xxvi. pt. ii. p. 99 (1861); Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 4^2 (1874), & vi. 

 p. 447 (1878) [Moulmeiu]. 



