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Arboricola chlorcpus, Tickell, J. As. Soc. Beng. xxviii. p. 453 

 (1859); Hume and Marshall, Game Birds of India, ii. p. 

 91, pi. (1879); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. 

 p. 219 (1893). 



Adult Male and Female. — Crown and upper-parts warm blown, 

 barred and marked with black ; wing-coverts mixed with buff 

 and rufous ; eyebrow-stripes black and white, and bordering the 

 crown and sides of the nape ; sides of face and throat white, 

 the neck rust-colour, all these parts dotted with black ; chest 

 brown, barred with black; middle of the breast rust-colour, 

 shading into whitish on the belly ; flanks buff, irregularly barred 

 and marked with black. 



Range. — From the bases of the hills north of Tonghoo and 

 the Eastern Pegu Hills, and extending as far south as Tavoy in 

 Tenasserim. Also recorded from Cochin China. 



Habits. — This species appears in Tenasserim to be confined 

 to the lower forests and jungles that skirt the bases of the hills, 

 generally avoiding the more dense hill-forests of the higher 

 elevations, where Arboricola brunneipectus is met with. 

 Davison found it most abundant in the thin tree-iungle, 

 generally in pairs or small parties which were seen gliding 

 about on the ground amongst the dense brushwood, and 

 scratching amongst the dead leaves in search of insects and 

 seeds. He says that the note is a soft double whistle, chiefly 

 uttered in the morning and evening, and that without dogs 

 they are hard to procure, being loath to take wing and pre- 

 ferring to run and squat under cover. When flushed by a dog 

 they rise at once, and after flying a short distance drop to the 

 ground, never perching on trees as is often the habit of Arbori- 

 cola rufigularis and its allies. 



11. charlton's wood-partridge, tropicoperdix 



charlton.i. 



Perdix charltoni, Eyton, Ann. and Mag. N. H. xvi. p. 230 



(1845). 



