1 66 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



to at least as far east as the Darrung district, north of the 

 Daphla Hills. It is also common on the higher ranges of 

 Tenasserim, on Mooleyit, but has not been met with in the 

 intervening countries. 



Habits. — The Rufous-throated Tree-Partridge, which, in 

 general appearance, closely resembles the female of the 

 Common Tree- Partridge (A. torqueola) but is at once dis- 

 tinguished by the absence of black bars on the back, inhabits 

 a much lower range than that species, not exceeding an 

 elevation of about 6,000 feet in the summer, while in cold 

 weather it may be met with nearly at the bottom of the 

 valleys. It is also more often met with in coveys than the 

 common species, but its general habits are otherwise perfectly 

 similar, though apparently it is more given to perching on 

 trees, when hushed by a dog or otherwise. Davison, who 

 collected many on the higher slopes of Mooleyit in Tenasserim, 

 tells us that he has shot three or four when thus perched, 

 before the others attempted to move, and that these birds 

 sometimes settled in trees within a few feet of him, being 

 apparently far tamer than the Himalayan examples of this 

 species. 



Nest and Eggs. — Very similar to those of A. atrigularis. An 

 egg measures 1*5 by i\2 inch. 



vii. sonnerat's tree-partridge, arboricola gingica. 

 La Perdrix de Gingi, Sonnerat, Voy. Ind. Orient, ii. p. 167 



(1782). 



Tetrao gingicus, Gmel. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 760 (1788). 

 Arboricola gingica, Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 174; Ogilvie-Grant, 

 Ibis, 1892, 395, pi. ix. ; id. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 213 



(1893). 

 Adult. — General colouring above similar to that of A. riifi- 

 gu/aris, but easily distinguished by having a triangular black 

 patch on the base of the fore-neck, succeeded by a nar 'rower zvhite, 

 and a wider band of deep maroon. 



