on Dr. Jerclon*s 'Birds of India.' 159 



Partridges of this group are best obtained from natives of the 

 country, who understand netting them. Comparatively few fall 

 to the gun. They rise singly in such difficult places, in steep 

 bamboo-clad hills, that even if occasionally hit by a snap shot 

 they are ofteuer lost than picked up in localities where a trained 

 dog is an unattainable desideratum: but there are ways of netting 

 or snaring them; for I have received from Sylhet several 

 dozens at a time of live A. atrogularis ; and a lot of A. tor- 

 queola is similarly now and then obtainable at Almoreh and 

 other Himalayan stations. 



This group of Pmra-Partridges, with long (or moderately 

 long) straight claws and spurless, is greatly developed in the 

 jungle-clad hills of South-eastern Asia and its islands, where pro- 

 bably several species yet remain to be discovered. I think we 

 can already enumerate : — 



(A. With the throat well feathered.) 



1. A. torqueola (Temm. PI. Col. 462, 463). The only spe- 

 cies known to me in which the sexes present a marked difference 

 of plumage, and a pair of which are now living in the Regent's 

 Park Gardens. Himalaya. 



2. A. rufogularis, nobis, J. A. S. B. xviii. p. 819, from the 

 South-eastern Himalaya, at a lower altitude than the preceding 

 race, and also the Tenasserim Mountains. 



3. A. brunneipectus, Tickell (J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 276). Te- 

 nasserim Mountains. 



4. A. javanica (Brown, 111. Zool. pi. 17; Temm. PI. Col. 

 148; but qucere the red surrounding the eye?). Java. 



5. A. (?) ceruginosa (Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 106) . Malayan 

 Peninsula. 



(B. With the throat thinly clad with feathers, showing the 

 crimson beneath.) 



6. A. personata (Horsf. Zool. Res. pi. ; Perdix orientalis, 

 Horsf., Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 184). Sumatra (?) and Java. 



7. A. atrogularis, nobis (J. A. S. B. xviii. p. 819; Perdix 

 olivacea of Buchanan Hamilton's Drawings, not of Hardwicke's 

 111. Ind. Zool.). Hills bordering the valley of the Brahmaputra 

 River southward. 



8. A. intermedia, nobis (J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 277). Probably 

 fi'oin Arakan. 



