80 TETRAONID.^. 



Front of the head as far back as the eyes pale grey ; rest of head and nape 

 hair brown, streaked with black ; lores, and a broad supercilium reaching to 

 the back of the head greyish white, the feathers with a central black streak ; 

 ear coverts, cheeks, sides of the neck and feathers under the eye black, the 

 bases rufous and showing through ; back, rump, and upper tail coverts glossy 

 olive brown, edged darker, and all the feathers except those on the back with a 

 small lanceolate spot of black ; tail olive brown, mottled with black, the outer 

 feathers tipped with white ; primaries brown, narrowly edged and tipped with 

 pale buff ; secondaries with broader edges and tips ; tertiaries, scapulars and 

 wing coverts a mixture of chestnut, fulvous and black, the latter colour being 

 in the form of large oval spots near the tips ; throat and foreneck black, a 

 rufous patch below it ; breast and upper abdomen dark grey ; sides of the 

 body chestnut, each feather with a large grey patch, inside of which is a long 

 and narrow white streak ; lower abdomen greyish white ; flanks and thigh 

 coverts pale buff with large black spots ; under tail coverts black at base, 

 white at tip. 



Lejigth.— 10 to II inches; wing 5-15 to 57; tail 2-2 to 2-4 ; tarsus r5 ; 

 bill from gape o'8 to o'g. 



Hab. — Arracan hills; also Cachar and the Naga hills. 



103. Arboricola rufogularis, Biyth, y. A. S. B. xviii. p. 819; 



Jcrd., B. hid. ii. p. 5 78; Blyih, B. Bunn. p. 150; Hrcme, Str. F. v. 

 p. 114; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 444 ; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p, 1 11 ; 

 Htwie and Marsh., Gaine Birds ii. p. 75, pi. ; Scully, Sir. F. viii. p. 349 ; 

 Oates, B. Br. Burvi. ii. p. 328; Murray, Avif. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 558, 

 No. 1226. Arborophila rufogularis, Bume, Sir. F. ii. p. 450. Arboricola 

 tickelli, Eume in Uume and Marsh. Game Birds ii. p. 78, note.— The Red- 

 throated Hill-Partridge. 



Very similar to A. inlerrnedia, but differs in the throat, foreneck and sides 

 of the neck being rufous, spotted with black, instead of black, and the rufous 

 of the foreneck divided from the grey breast by a black band. (Oales.) Legs 

 and feet pale pinky red ; bill horny black ; irides deep brown ; orbital skin 

 bright red. {Davison.) 



Length.— \\ inches ; tail 3 ; wing 5-5 ; tarsus rs ; bill from gape n. 



Hah. — Tenasserim, and along the Himalayas from Assam to Kumaon. 

 Habits the same as the other species of the genus. 



104. Arboricola Mandelli, Htime, Sir. F. ii. p. 449; hi. p. 262, 



pi. I; Hume and Marsh., Game Birds ii. p. 84, pL; Murray, Avif. Brit. 

 Ind. ii. p. 558, No. 1227. — The Bhootan Hill Partridge. 



Lores, forehead, and sinciput a rich deep brownish chestnut ; under the 

 anterior portion of the lores a narrow yellowish streak ; crown, occiput and 

 nape rich deep rufescent olive brown ; supercilum grey, continued back over 



