THE TREE-PARTRIDGES. 



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quite close. At other seasons it is never beard to call, except 

 when disturbed." 



Hodgson says that " they constantly perch. At the top of 

 Pulchook I flushed a covey of eight or ten, which flew widely 

 scattered, all alighting on the highest trees." 



Eggs. — Said (no doubt correctly) to be pure white, and six to 

 eight in number. 



II. THE BLACK-THROATED TREE-PARTRIDGE. ARBORICOLA 

 ATRIGULARIS. 



Arboricola atrogularis, Blyth, J. As. Soc. Beng. xviii. p. 819 



(1849) ; Hume and Marshall, Game Birds of India, ii. p. 



79, pi. (1879); Oates, ed. Hume's Nests and Eggs Ind. 



B. iii. p. 439 (1890); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 



xxii. p. 209 (1893). 

 Adult Male and Female. — Above olive-brown, barred with black 

 on the back, and much the same as in A. I'orqueola ; throat 

 black; feathers of fore-neck black, edged with white; chest 

 grey, shading into white on the middle of the upper-parts ; 

 flank-feathers grey, edged with olive-brown, and with an oval 

 white spot near the end of the shafts. Total length of male, 

 io'o inches; wing, 5-6; tail, 2*2; tarsus, 17. Female rather 

 smaller. 



Range. — North-eastern India, extending from Eastern Assam 

 to Chittagong and Manipur, and eastwards to the Kachin 

 Hills east of Bhamo. 



Habits — Mr. J. R. Cripps found this species com iron in 

 Sylhet, frequenting the hillocky ground covered with dense 

 forest. He says : — "They are very fond of feeding about the 

 banks of the small rivulets that meander among the hillocks 

 which are scattered about the district. They feed on insects, 

 for which they scratch amongst the decaying leaves that carpet 

 the ground, seeds and berries of various kinds, and on young 

 shoots. 



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