78 TETRAONID^. 



Length. — lO 5 to 12 inches ; wing 57 to 6-2; tail 275 to 3-25 ; tarsus i'6 

 to 2 ; bill from gape o'S to i. 



Hab. — Throughout the outer ranges of the Himalayas from Simla to 

 Darjeeling. In Sikkim it is found from about 6,000 to 9,000 feet. It extends 

 to Bhootan and also to the Naga hills. Hume says it haunts dark, densely 

 jungled watercourses and ravines running down the hillsides and never or 

 seldom rising when disturbed. Nothing appears to be known of the nidifica- 

 tion of this species. 



99. Arboricola atrogularis {Bfyth), Jerd., B. Ltd. iii. p. 579 ; 



Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 449; v. p. 1 4 (note) ; Hume and Marsh., Game Birds, 

 p. 79, pi.; Murray, Avif, Brit. Ind. ii. p. 556, No, 1222.— The Black- 

 throated Hill Partridge. 



Not unlike A. torqueolus, but differs in having the top of the head greyish 

 olive, more or less black spotted, and the breast pale uniform grey. Bill 

 blackish brown ; irides deep brown ; orbital space and gular skin vermilion ; 

 legs orange red. 



Length.— 10 to ii inches; wing 5 to 59; tail 2-15 to 2*5 ; tarsus 1*5 to 

 I"] ; bill from gape 0-85 to 0-87. 



Hab. — Assam, extending to the Garo hills, thence it occurs in Cachar, 

 Sylhet and Tipperah ; also in Chittagong. Breeds in Sylhet, where Mr. Cripps 

 took two nests. The eggs were broad ovals, a good deal pointed towards the 

 small end, and white. In size they vary from 1-33 to 1-43 in length and from 

 r I to r 1 3 in breadth. All the Arboricolas are good for the table. 



100. Arboricola brunneipectus {Tukeii), Biyth, y. A. S. B. 



xxiv. p. 276 ; Blyth, B. Burin, p. 150 ; Htinie and Dav., Str. F. vi. p. 443 ; 

 Hume, Str. F. viii. p. ill; Hume and Marsh., Game Birds ii. p. 87 pi. ; 

 Bingham, Str. F. ix. p. 19S ; Oates, Str. F. x. p. 236; Oates, B. Br. Burm. 

 ii. p. 325; Murray, Avif. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 556, No. 1223. Arborophila 

 brunneipectus, Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 449; iii. p. 174; Wald., Ibis, 1875, 

 p. 459. — The Brown-breasted Hill Partridge. 



Forehead and supercilium, which extends to the nape, fawn colour ; lores, 

 circle round the eye, a line continued from behind the eye over the ear coverts 

 to the sides of the neck black, forming in the latter a large black patch, 

 behind which and around the throat and upper breast are spots of black ; 

 crown and nape olive brown, the feathers tipped with black ; hind head nearly 

 all black ; back and scapulars olive brown, barred straight or lunately with 

 black ; rump olive brown with but few bars ; upper tail coverts plain olive 

 brown ; tail olive brown, mottled with black ; primaries brown, their tips mottled 

 with rufescent ; secondaries brown, edged on the outer webs with pale 

 chestnut ; terliaries and longer scapulars olive brown, tipped with chestnut 

 and a subterminal black oval patch ; wing coverts olive brown, some of the 



