23. GALLOPERDIX. 263 



y. 2 ju^'- sk. Courjjf, Bramagherry Hilln, Iluine Coll.- 



April ( W. Davimn). 

 z-i'. J $ ad. sk. Ootacamund, Jau. to April Hume Coll. 



{W. Davison), 

 k'-vi. (5 5 ad. sk. Kota;?h«'rry, March ( W. Hume Coll. 



Davisdn). 

 n'~t'. c{ $ ad. et Goonoov, 3 a.r\. {W. Davison). Hume Coll. 

 cj iiiim. sk. 



u', w'. J ad. et imiii. Mv.'^ore, July. W. Davison, Esq. 



sk. . ~ ^ ^p_-j_ 



w . cf ad. sk. Mj'sore, ^lay (If. Darison). Ilume Coll. 



.1''. 2 ad.sk. Seegrore, Feb. {IF. Davison). Hume Coll. 



y', s'. J ad. sk. Shevaroy Hills, Fob. j(-4. 6'. Hume Coll. 



H. Theobald). 



a"-c", cj" 2 ad. sk. Madras, .April ( W. Davison). Hume Coll. 



d"-(/". c? 2 f^^l- sk. Seoni Forests, Feb. aud May Hume Coll. 



(li. Thompson), 



h". S ad. sk. Oudli. Hume Coll. 



2. Galloperdix lunulata. 



Curiia Partrid^^e, Lath. (i,-n. Hist. viii. p. 270 (1823). 



I'erdi.x: lunulata, Valenc. Diet. Sci. Nat. xxxviii. p. 446 (1825) ; Gray, 



in Grif. ed. Cuv. iii. p. 48 (1829) ; Less. Traite dOrn. p. 504 (1831). 

 Ptrdix hardwiekii. Gray, in Grif. ed. Cuv. iii. p. 48 (1829) ; id. III. 



Ind. Zool. i. pi. 52 (1830-32). 

 Friiucolinus uivosus, De/essert, May. de Zool. Ois. pi. 18 [text] (1840) ; 



id. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 100. 

 Francolinus hardwickii, Delessert, Voy. dans I'Inde, p. 26, pi. 10 (1843J. 

 Ithagiuis luuulalus, Grai/, List of B. pt. iii. Gall. p. 32 (1844) ; id. 



Gen. B. iii. p. 504 (l84(i) ; id. List Gallincc Brit. Mus. p. 47 (1867) ; 



id. Hand-l. B. ii. ]). 264 (1870). 

 Galloperdix hu.ulosa, Bli/th, Cat. .Mas. As. Soc. p. 241 (1849) ; Gould, 



B. As. vi. ])1. ti9 (18.54) ; Sclat. ^- Wolf, Zool. Sket. 2, pi. 41 (1861) ; 



Beavan, Ibis, 1868, p. 382 [Maunbhuom]. 

 Galloperdix lunulosiis, Jerd. B. Iml. iii. p. 543 (1863); Marsh. B. 



Nest. Ind. p. 59 (1877) ; Hume ^- .Marsh. GameB. Ind. i. pi. (1878). 

 Galloperdix lunulatus, Hume, N. ^- D. Ind. B. p. 5.33 (1873); Ball, 



Str. F. ii. p. 427 (l.'^74) [Chota Nagpur], v. p. 418 (1877) [Mahanadi 



and Godaveri rivers], vii. p. 225 (1878) [Ganges to Godaveri] ; 



IIu7ne ^ Marsh. Game B. Ind. i. p. 255, pi. (1878); Markham, 



8tr. F. ix. p. 206 (1880) [Allahabad]; Butler, Utr. F. ix. p. 422 



(18.S0) [IVlgaum Dist.]; Davi.son, Str. F. x. ]). 4\0 (1883) [Nil- 



ghirisj; Taylor, Str. F. x. p. 531 (1887) [OrissaJ; Gates, ed. Hume's 



Nests '^ Eyys, iii. p. 425 (1890). 



AduJt male. Top of the head black, more or less glossed with 

 dull purplish green, each feather with a white shaft usually ending 

 in a subterniinal white spot ; mantle, back, and rump chestnut, the 

 feathers, es])ecially of the former, with white black edged ocelli at 

 the extremity, but iti some examples these markings are nearly or 

 entirely absent on the lower back "and rump ; wing-coverts and 

 scapulars resemble the feathers of the mantle, but arc more or less 

 mixed with dark brown, glossed with dull purplish green. Quills dark 

 brown. Lores, sides and underparts of the head and neck white, 

 spotted and barred with black ; chin white. Chest, breast, and 



