30. THE WHITE-CHEEKED HILL- 

 PARTRIDGE. 



Arhoricola atrigularis, Blyth. 



Sides of the body with small oval white 



spots, but with no trace of chestnut. 

 Cheeks white ; throat black. 



Sexes alike. 



Vernacular ^XMES:—Peura, Sylhet ; 

 Duboi, Assam ; San-batat, Chittagong. 



The White-cheeked Hill-Partridge occurs 

 from the Bhramaputra river southwards 

 to Chittagong on the west and to the 

 Kachin Hills, in the neighbourhood of 

 Bhamo, on the east. In Assam it appears 

 to be restricted to the south bank of the 

 Bhramaputra from Sadiya to the Garo 

 Hills. It has been met with in Cachar, 

 Sylhet, Tipperah, Manipur and Chittagong, 

 and this Partridge will probably be met 

 with over a great part of Upper Burma as 

 far as the southern limit of the wet zone. 



Very little is known of this species. 

 Mr. Cripps, as quoted by Messrs. Hume 

 and Marshall, says : — " Though greatly 



