258 pnAsiANiD^. 



rump, and upper tail-coverts pale olive-brown, finely vermiculated 

 with lighter colour and black, some of the longer upper tail-coverts 

 being also spotted along the shaft with black. Primaries and second- 

 aries and their coverts light chestnut, darker towards the extremities 

 of both webs ; the secondaries and their coverts narrowly margined 

 and irregularly barred with buiF. Ear-coverts chestnut (in some male 

 specimens black), superciliary stripe, sides of face, chin, and throat 

 buff or pale rust-coloured. Feathers of the chest olive-brown, with a 

 chestnut shaft-patch at the extremity, and a white blotch on either 

 margin. Breast and rest of underparts pale buff; sides, flanks, and 

 under tail-coverts with large black subterminal heart-shaped spots. 

 Tail-feathers reddish brown, the middle pairs irregularly barred and 

 mottled with buff. Male provided with a pair of spurs, female 

 generally without. Upper mandible deep brown, lower brown ; iris 

 orange-hazel. Legs and feet grey, pale brownish grey, or dark. 



Male. Total length 12-3 iuches, wing SS, tail 4-4, tarsus 1-9. 



Female. Total length 11*5 inches, wing S'B, tail 4*2, tarsus 1*7. 



Immatare specimens differ in having buff shaft-stripes on the 

 feathers of the back of the neck, back, wing-coverts, and scapulars, 

 and the rump and upper tail-coverts with larger subterminal black 

 spots, often running some distance up the shaft. 



JIab. N.E. India. Garo, Khasia, and Naga Hills, also the hills 

 of N. Cachar, E. Manipur, and Kachin to S.W. Sze-chuen. 



a-ff. (^ 2ad.,inmi., Shillong, Aug., Oct., Nov., Dec. Hume CoU. 



et pull. sk. (J. Cockburn). 



h. cJad.sk. Naga HiUs, Jan. (^. 7F. CAe/me/Z). Tweeddale Coll. 



i, k. S 2 ad. sk. Manipur, April, May {A. 0. H.). Hume CoU. 



/. 2 ad. sk. Ponsee, Kachin Hills, April. Dr. J. Anderson 



[P.]. 



m. Pull. St. [3 days old]. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



2. Bambusicola thoracica. 



Perdix thoracica, Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 335, 723 (1815) ; Blyth, 



Cat. B. Mtts. As. Soc. p. 607 (1849) ; Gray, List Gallime Brit. Mus. 



p. 58 (1867) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 267, no. 9699 (1870); id. Fasc. 



B. China, p. 6 (1871) ; David, N. Arch. Mus. Bull. vii. p. 11 (1871) 



[Sze-chuen]. 

 Perdix sphenura. Gray, Zool. Misc. p. '2 (1844) ; id. Fasc. B. China, 



pi. viii. (1871). 

 Arborophila sphenura, Gray, List Gall. B. iii. p. 38 (1844). 

 Francolinus thoracicus, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 505 (1846). 

 Francoliaus sphenuius, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 506 (1846). 

 Starna thoracica, Bonap. C. R. xlii. p. 883 (1856). 

 GaUoperdix sphenura, Bonap. C. R. xlii. p. 882 (1856). 

 Bambusicola sphenura, Gould, F. Z. S. 1862, p. 285. 

 Arboricola bambusffi, Stcinh. Ibis, 1862, p. 259 [Hills of Foochow]. 

 Bambusicola thoracica, Sivinh. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 307 ; id. Ibis, 1863, 



pp. 400, 401 [Foochow] ; id. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 400 ; David ^- Oust. 



Ois. Chine, p. 393 (1877) [S. China, Fokien to Sze-chuen and S. 



Shen-si] ; Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 329 [Lower Yangtse basin]; Grant, 



Ibis, 1892, p. 389 ; De la Touche, Ibis, 1892, p. 494 [Foochow 



and Swatow Hills]. 



