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Genus ArporicoLa, Hill Partridges or Green Partridges, are 
found chiefly on the mountains. In size smallish. They adhere 
pretty closely to denser parts of the jungles and forests. Tarsus is 
free of spurs ; toes and claws long; tail short, of feathers softer 
than the foregoing species. 
(824) ARBORICOLA TORQUEOLA, Black-throuted Hill-partridge, is 
rarer in this district, than the next species. It frequents thickly 
wooded parts chiefly in Sikkim, and are found about 9,000 feet ele- 
vation. It descends during winter months to 6,000 feet. These 
birds usually associate in pairs. In the cold weather they appear 
to be more gregarious. Both these species are often found foraging 
together with some of the pheasants, and live chiefly on roots, seeds 
and berries, occasionally on buds and flowers; wild everlasting 
daisies, and tender cryptogams. Jorqueola is about 11 inches ; 
bill black ; irides deep brown ; legs red ; colour of the male, above, 
is olive on the shoulders and back, with dusky semi-circular spots ; 
wing coverts olive and chestnut, with spots ; head, ear-coverts and 
sides of the neck ferruginous ; black on sides of the head with a 
white supercilium ; throat black bordered with white ; bright olive 
on upper breast ; lower breast and belly whitish ; flanks olive with 
streaks of chestnut and white ; tail olive tipped dark and speckled 
with black. 
(825) ARBORICOLA RUFOGULARIS, Ltufous-throated Hill-partridge. 
Though more plentiful, in the district, than the former bird, never- 
theless, it is ditticult to find, as it keeps close to dense jungle cover, 
and never seems to come out into more open country. This Hill- 
partridge, occasionally, visits jungle lands below Darjeeling ; but 
appears to be more partial to an elevation of 5,000 feet. In size 
it is 11 inches; wing extent 19 inches; bill black ; irides red 
brown ; orbits dull lake red; legs red. Its handsome, brightly 
coloured collar on the breast, of ferruginous with black specks, 
makes it readily distinguished ; plumage of the male, is not unlike 
former species, differing chiefly in the deep ferruginous with black 
spots on the throat, and sides of the neck ; a black collar surround- 
ing the ferruginous gorget. These two Hill-partridges are similar 
in habits and general characteristics. 
Sup-Famity COTURNICINE (True Quails) 
Differ from the latter species by their longer and more pointed 
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wings. ‘They are strong on the wing, and display a constant desire 
