14. n.EMAxoRivx. 221 



1 7. Arboricola charltoni. 



Perdix charltouii, Ei/tcm, Ann. ^- Mag. N. H. xvi. p. 230 (184o) 



[Malacca] ; Gray, List Gallitue Brit. Mtis. p. 58 (18G7) ; id. Iland-l. 



B. ii. p. 1^58, 110. 9701 (1870). 

 Francolimis charltoiii, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 605 (1846). 

 Arboricola (:-) charltoni, Blyth, Cut. B. 3Ius. As. Soc. p. 253 (1849) 



[Penang!. 

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



(1859). 

 A-rboricola charltoni, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, pp. 160, 313 ; Hume 4" Davison, 



Sir. F. vi. p. 445 (1878) ; Hume 6r Marsh. Game B. ii. p. 93, pi. 



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



p. 398. 

 Peloperdix charltoni, Bli/fh, fide Gray, List Gallina Brit. Mas. p. 58 



(1867) ; Omtal. Bull. 'Soc. Philom. (7) vi. p. 259 (1882). 

 Arboropiiila charltoni, Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 450 (1874) ; Nicholson, 



Ibis, 1883, p. 89 [Se<,'ilind P., N.E. Borneo]; Everett, List B. 



Borneo, p. 199 (1889) lN. Borneo] ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1890, pp. 140, 



284, -267 [Benkoka K. & Sandakan]. 

 Arboricola pvrrhogaster, Rcichenb., Bli/th ^- Walden, Cat. Mamm. Sr 



B. Burma, p. 151 (1875) [Prov. Wellesley]. 

 Arboriphila charltoni, Elliot, Auk, viii. p. 15 (1891) [Sapagaya R., 



N.E. Borneo]. 



Adidi male and ft' male. Differ from A. chloropus in having all the 

 feathers of the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts vermiculated and 

 irregularly barred with black, most of the feathers with irregular buff 

 spots or bars ; the ear-coverts uniform rufous or rufous chestnut; the 

 sides of the neck and a ring round the base black ; the front of the 

 neck white, spotted with black ; the upper half of chest chestnut, the 

 lower half, sides, and flanks buff, widely barred with blackish brown ; 

 these bars are rather less sharply detined on the lower chest of the 

 female. Iris brown ; bill black ; feet dull yellowish green. 



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



Female. Total length 1() inches, wing 6, tail 2-4, tarsus I'o. 



Hah. The ^lalay Peninsula from Pinang southwards, Sumatra 

 and X. Borneo. Keported also from Bankok in Siam and the 

 South Tenasserim Hills. 



a f. Ad. sk. Pinang (Dr. Cantor). India Museum [P.]. 



g, h. Ad. sk. Malacca. Major A. Charlton [P.]. 



(Types of the species.) 



«'. Ad. sk. Malacca. India Museum [P.]. 



k. Ad. sk. Malacca. Gould Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Elopura, \. Borneo, .\pril Dr. R. B. Sharpe [P.]. 



( W. B. Fryer). 



14. H.ffiMATORTYX. 



TypP- 

 Hsematortyx, Sharpe, ///(,<, ls7!t, p. 2(it; H. sanguinicep. 



Tail composed of 12 feathers, short, rounded, and less than half 

 the length of the wing. 



1st primary equal in length to the 10th ; nth slightly longest. 

 Tarsus longer than the middle toe and claw, and armed with 



