1 68 Allen's naturalist's library. 



Arboricola javanica, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 

 214(1893). 



Adult Male and Female. —Crown reddish-brown, shading into 

 rusty on the forehead and bordered by a black band, which 

 encircles the eye, and is continued down the middle of the rust- 

 red nape, and joins a second black band surrounding the base 

 of the neck ; upper-parts grey, barred with black ; cheeks and 

 throat rust-coloured ; chest grey ; rest of under-parts and 

 flanks chestnut. Total length, 11 inches; wing, 5*6 ; tail, 2-2 ; 

 tarsus, 1*8. 



Range. — Mountains of Java. 



X. THE RED-BILLED TREE-PARTRIDGE. ARBORICOLA 

 RUBRIROSTRIS. 



Peloperdix rubrirostris, Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. xiv. 

 p. 251 (1879); Snelleman, in Veth's Midden-Sumatra, iv. 

 p. 46, pi. iii. (1887). 

 Arboricola rubrirostris, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. 

 p. 215 (1893). 



Adult Male. — Head, throat, and neck black, with a few white 

 spots on the sides of the crown and throat, and a small patch of 

 the same colour on the chin ; upper-parts reddish olive-brown, 

 barred with black ; chest brown ; upper breast and sides of the 

 belly white, with a large black spot on each feather ; middle 

 of belly white ; flanks black, barred with white. Total length, 

 9-6 inches; wing, 5-2 ; tail, 17 ; tarsus, 175. 



Adult Female. — Has rather more white on the lores and chin 

 and is somewhat smaller. 



Range. — Mountains of Sumatra. 



This is a very rare bird in collections, very few specimens 

 having as yet been obtained, but its habits, so far as they are 

 known, appear to be similar to those of its allies. The colora- 

 tion of the under-parts is peculiar, and very different from that 

 of any of the other species of this genus. 



