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Adult Male. — General colour blackish-brown ; crown and nape 

 dull deep crimson ; fore-neck, chest, and longer under tail- 

 coverts deep brilliant crimson ; cheeks and throat paler crimson. 

 Total length, 10-5 inches; wing, 6-6; tail, 2*8; tarsus, 2-3. 



Adult Female. — Differs from the male in having the throat pale 

 rufous, washed with crimson, and the fore-part of the neck and 

 chest reddish-chestnut. Smaller. Total length, 10-5 inches; 

 wing, 6; tail, 2*8; tarsus, 1-9. 



Range. — Mountain forests and jungles of North Borneo. 



This splendid Wood-Partridge was first described by Dr. 

 Bowdler Sharpe, from a single female specimen obtained by 

 Mr. W. H. Treacher near the Lawas River and now in the 

 Oxford Museum. In 1891 a second female was collected by 

 Mr. Hose on the moss-clad summit of Mount Dulit, at an 

 elevation of about 5,000 feet; but it was not until 1893, when 

 Mr. Everett's collectors captured a third example of this rare 

 bird on the eastern slope of Mount Kina Balu, that the adult 

 male of this wonderful form of Partridge, with its brilliant 

 crimson chest and treble-spurred legs, became known. The 

 three individuals mentioned are all that have been obtained, 

 and the two latter now form part of the National Collection. 



THE FERRUGINOUS WOOD-PARTRIDGES. GENUS 

 CALOPERDIX. 



Caloperdix, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 160. 

 Type, C. oculea (Teram.). 

 Tail rather short and composed of fourteen feathers ; less 

 than half the length of the wing. 



First primary flight-feather equal to the tenth, the fourth to 

 the sixth feathers being equal and longest. 



Tarsi armed in the male with one or more pairs of spurs ; 

 nail on the hind-toe rudimentary. 



I. THE FERRUGINOUS WOOD-PARTRIDGE. CALOPERDIX OCULEA. 



Perdix oculea, Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 408 and 732 



('815). 



