244 INDFAN SPOKTING BIRDS 



The present species, being a widespread bird, has several 

 native names; that given above is in use in Nepal and Kmnann, 

 as well as Ban-titar ; the Lepcha name is Kolnnn-plw, and the 

 Kaugra one Kaindal; Ramchukru and Roll are used in Chamba. 



Rufous-throated or Blyth's Hill-Partridge. 



Arhoricola rufogularis. Pokhu, Daphla Hills. 



The rufous-throated hill-partridge, which in Kuraaun shares 

 the name of peura with the last species, is not unlike the hen of 

 that bird, having the throat also chestnut variegated with black ; 

 but the brown back is scantily spotted with black, not profusely 

 barred as in both sexes of the true peura, and the legs are red, 

 whereas those of the common hill-partridge are grey, with only a 

 tinge of red. In having the breast clear grey, not drab, this 

 partridge resembles the male rather than the female of the 

 common hill-partridge. 



The rufous-throated hill-partridge, generally speaking, has 

 the same range in longitude as the common species, though 

 occurring in the Daphla Hills and those of Karennee and 

 Tenasserim, where that is not found ; but it ranges through a 

 different zone in altitude, being a bird of the lower hills, and 

 descending even to their foot. Above 6,000 feet it is not to be 

 looked for, even in summer-time. In Tenasserim birds the feet 

 are not so bright a red, the size is altogether larger, and they are 

 generally without a black stripe, which in the Himalayan race is 

 found at the termination of the reddish brown on the neck. 



Besides keeping lower down, the red-throated hill-partridge is 

 more sociable than the ordinary species, or, at any rate, forms 

 larger coveys, according to Hume, but in other respects its ways 

 are precisely similar. In the Daphla Hills it was noticed by 

 Godwen-Austen to come down at night into the warm gullies, and 

 feed upwards along the ridges, so that the natives were able 

 to snare numbers by erecting little fences across their path, with 

 openings set with bamboo-peel nooses, a method of capturing 

 ground-game widely practised in eastern hills, and one that 



