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median and greater series with large black patches ; breast uniform tawny or 

 ferruginous olive ; middle of abdomen and vent whitish; sides of abdomen and 

 body tawny, the feathers with a large white spot and edged in crescent form 

 with black; under tail coverts tawny brown barred with black. Bill black; 

 eyelids, orbital patch, and gular skin bright red, very thinly covered with 

 feathers ; legs and feet dull coral to bright red, 



Lenglh. — io'6 to I r6 ; wing 5-2 to 6; tail 2-i to 2*6; tarsus 1*5 to i'8; 

 bill from gape fo to ri. Females are smaller and average only lO inches in 

 length. 



Hab. — The Pegu hills on the eastern spurs and Tenasserim, as far south 

 as Tavoy. Oates adds that it is common in densely-wooded ravines and 

 nullahs. They skulk in the undergrowths, and would seldom be seen were 

 they not to come to the beds of streams to drink and bathe. 



101. Arboricola chloropus iTkkeii), Biyth, y. A. S. B. xviii. 



p. 453 ; BIyth, B. Bunnah, p. 150; Hume and Dav., Str. F. vi. p. 444; 

 Hwne, Sir. F. viii. p. lii ; Hume and Marsh., Ga?ne Birds ii. p. 91, pi.; 

 Bingham, Str. F. ix. p. 195 ; Oates, Str, F.x.y>- 236; id., B. Br. Burmah 

 ii. p. 326; Hurray, Avif. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 557, No. 1224. Tropicoperdix 

 chloropus {Tickell), BIyth, J. A. S. B. xxviii. p. 415. Arborophila chloropus, 

 Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 449. Peloperdix chloropus, Hume, Str. F. iii. p. 176. — 

 The Green-legged Hill-Partridge. 



Forehead and supercilium continued on to the sides of the nape and 

 meeting behind white, the feathers slightly edged with blackish; crown and 

 nape rich olive brown ; the back, scapulars, tertiaries, lesser wing coverts, 

 rump, and upper tail coverts rich olive brown tinged with fulvous and 

 irregularly but closely barred with blackish ; primaries dark brown, freckled 

 on the outer webs with fulvous ; greater coverts and secondaries freckled and 

 marked with fulvous and pale rufous ; tail rufous brown, with freckles and 

 broken bars of black ; upper abdomen ferruginous ; lower abdomen, vent and 

 under tail coverts buffy white ; sides of the body pale ferruginous with wavy 

 bars of black. Irides hazel ; bill dusky red at base, rest greenish ; eyelids and 

 orbital skin purplish ; legs greenish. 



Length. — ir4 to 12 inches ; wing 6'05 to 6-6; tail 2-9 to 3-5 ; tarsus 17 to 

 179 ; bill from gape 08 to 9. The females are smaller. 



Hab. — The evergreen forests of the eastern slopes of the Pegu hills ; also 

 in Tenasserim from the extreme north down to Tavoy. Habits same as the 

 last. 



102. Arboricola intermedia, Biyth, y. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 277; 



Hume, Str. F. viii. p. in.; Hume and Alarsh., Game Birds ii, p. 85, pi. ; 

 Murray, Avif. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 557, No. 1225. Arborophila intermedia, 

 Hiune, Str. F. ii, p. 450; Oates, Str. F. iii. p. 344; zV/., B. Br. Burmah ii. 

 p. 327. — The Arracan PIill-Partridge. 



