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ou throat pure white, bordered by a deep black line ; chin 

 and throat black ; abdomen ruddy chestnut. The female is 

 not nearly so boldly marked : one shot at Singapore on 7th 

 November measured 5^ inches in length, tarsus f inch ; 

 legs orange ; irides red-brown ; supercilium, throat, and 

 forehead rufous brown ; chin dull white ; breast dingy brown, 

 with narrow black cross bars ; feathers of flanks much 

 lengthened ; the white and black markings of the throat, 

 also the chestnut abdomen of the male, were wanting. 



RoLLULus RouRouL (Scop.) . The Crested Partridge. 



Though not rare, this bird is seldom seen, being very shy, 

 and on the approach of danger trusting to its legs rather than 

 taking flight. All my specimens were snared in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Kwala Kangsar. 



Captain Wardlaw-Ramsay tells me he found it plentiful 

 round Mount Ophir ; and I saw several skins in Malaccan 

 collections. These birds thrive well in confinement, but are 

 not easily tamed : some which were in my aviary for several 

 months were always wild, hiding directly any one appeared in 

 sight ; but early in the morning, when all was quiet, and they 

 thought they were not observed, they used to come out of 

 their hiding-places and feed on rice and Indian corn. 



The male is very handsome, with a crest of red plumes on 

 its head ; the female is without the crest, and of much duller 

 colours than her mate. 



Rhizothera longirostris, Temm. 



While stationed at Kwala Kangsar, Perak, a Malay brought 

 me one of these curious Pheasant-like birds, which he had 

 snared, and I put it in my aviary ; but it only lived a few 

 weeks. 



I also saw a couple in confinement, at Singpore, in Mr. 

 Whampoa's garden ; but he could not tell me any thing about 

 them, not even where they came from. They were about the 

 size of a domestic hen, wings and tail short, legs whitish, 

 tarsus spurred, irides dark brown, beak black ; sharp, and 

 very much curved ; plumage rich brown, mottled and spotted 

 with a darker shade of the same colour ; at the base of the 



