82 TETRAONlDi^. 



Top of head, hind neck, lower back, rump and upper tail coverts dull pale 

 olivaceous brown, more or less barred with very fine zigzag lines of a paler 

 colour : some of the upper tail coverls mesially with a black spot; tail rufous 

 brown, banded transversely with freckly bars of black and rufescent bufT ; wing 

 coverts, tertiaries, and longer scapulars with chestnut and black spots at the 

 tips ; sides and flanks ochraceous, wilh a large velvet black subterminal spot ; 

 chin pale ochraceous ; lores, a streak above the black streak behind the 

 eye, sides of the face and cheeks chraceous ; breast tinged with chestnut ; 

 primaries chestnut on the outer webs ; bill dark brown ; irides hazel brown ; 

 legs pale greenish grey. 



Length. — 14 to 14*3 inches; wing 6-i to 6-45 ; tail from vent 4*62 to 5-13; 

 tarsus 175 to r93 ; bill from gape o"9 to 097. Females average smaller. 



Length.— I2'5 to 13 inches, with a wing of 5*6 to 5"8, 



Zr<z3,— Shillong, in the Khasia hills, also in the Garo, North Cachar and 

 Naga hills, and probably the hill ranges of Upper Burmah and Assam. It is 

 said to be a shy bird, and to frequent dense grass. 



Gen. CaloiDerdix.-i?/;///. 



Bill longer and stouter than in Arbon'cola ; tarsus stout and strong, double- 

 spurred in the males. Plumage of the sexes alike. 



108. CaloperdiX Oeulea {Tcmm.), Salvad., Ucc. Bom. p. 3 10; 

 H time and Dav., Str. F. vi. p. 449; Huriie and Marsh., Game Birds Ind. iii. 

 p. loi, pi. ; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. iii; Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 329; 

 Afurrajy, Avif. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 566, No. 1229. Perdix ocuIea, Temm., Pig. et 

 Gall. iii. p. 732. Tetrao ocellatus, Raffl., Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 322. 

 Caloperdix ocellata, Blyfh, B. Burm. p. 151. — The Ferruginous Wood 

 Partridge, 



Whole head, neck, breast, and abdomen chestnut, darkest on the crown 

 and palest on the throat ; a streak over the eye paler chestnut than the other 

 parts ; tips of the ear coverts black ; lower abdomen and vent ashy white ; base 

 of the neck above, back, scapulars, sides of the breast and of the body black, 

 each feather with a subterminal white bar ; lower back and rump black, each 

 feather with a central oval spot of chestnut ; upper tail coverts black, each 

 feather with an irregular V-shaped mark of chestnut ; flanks chestnut, with 

 oval black drops; thighs plain chestnut; under tail coverts mixed chestnut 

 and black, the longer ones black, tipped with fulvous white ; tail brownish 

 black, the two centre pairs of feathers irregularly marked with zigzag lines 

 of pale fulvous ; primaries plain brown, all but the first three tipped with 

 fulvous ; secondaries brown, edged on the outer webs with fulvous, the edging 

 increasing in extent till it occupies the whole of the web on the inner 

 secondaries ; tertiaries and coverts liver brown, each feather with a black drop 

 near the tip and the coverts narrowly edged with rufous ; under wing coverts 



