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and south of this they are replaced by one or more nearly affined 

 genera. They are of rather small size and plump form, and are 

 the most forest-loving of the family ; being only found in dense 

 forests in mountainous districts, or in thick scrub ; they live in 

 coveys, and have a whistling call. The sexes differ slightly in 

 plumage, in some of the species at all events. 

 There are two species within our limits. 



824. Arboricola torqueola, Valenciennes. 



Perdix, apud Valenciennes— Blytii, Cat. 1510 — P. megapodia 

 Temminck, pi. col, 462, 463 — P. olivacea, Gray — Hardwicke 

 111. Ind. Zool. 1, pi. 57 — Ban titar, and Peura, H. Phohras in 

 some parts of the North- West Himalayas — Kohempho, Lepch. — 

 Kangkom, Bhot. 



The Black-throated Hill-partridge. 



Descr. — Male, crown of head and ear-coverts ferruginous, passing 

 down the sides and nape of the neck ; lores and supercilia black, the 

 latter bordered by a narrow white line ; shoulders, back and rump 

 olive with dusky lunules, deepening to black spots on the rump ; 

 wing-coverts mixed olive and chesnut, with a few large black 

 spots ; chin and throat black, the outer feathers white-margined ; 

 the neck and upper part of breast bright olive, with a circle or 

 torque of white below the black throat ; the lower breast and 

 belly whitish ; the flanks olive, broadly dashed with chesnut and 

 with large white spots ; tail olive, black-speckled, and a terminal 

 dark bar. 



Bill black; irides deep brown; legs red. Length lOi- to 11 

 inches ; extent 18 ; wing 5^ ; tail 2^ ; tarsus 1|. Weight 8 oz. 



The female has the head and neck olive with black speckles ; 

 the chin, throat, and sides of the neck light chesnut, with black 

 marks ; the neck and breast olive with a chesnut gorget ; the rest 

 as in the male. 



This pretty Partridge is found throughout the Himalayas, from 

 Simla to Darjeeling. In Sikim it is found from about 6,000 to 

 9,000 feet, and is often taken in winter by imitating its whistling 

 call. The female is figured in the Bengal Sporting Magazine under 

 the name of the Phokras. 



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