176 llovd's natural history. 



Caloperdix oailea, Blyth, Ibis, 1S67, p. 160; Hume and Mar- 

 shall, Game Birds of India, ii. p. 101, pi. (1879); Ogilvie- 

 Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 222 (1893). 



Adult Male and Female. — Crown chestnut ; nape rufous, shad- 

 ing into black on the mantle, each feather of which is marked 

 with concentric white lines ; feathers of rest of upper-parts black, 

 with a bright rust-coloured sub-margin al band ; wings olive- 

 brown, with round black spots ; sides of the head and throat 

 rufous-buff shading into clear rufous-chestnut on the rest of 

 the under-parts ; sides barred with whitish and black. 



Male: Total length, 11 "8 inches \ wing, 57; tail, 2*5; tar- 

 sus, 1 '8. 



Female: Somewhat smaller. 



Range. — The dense forests of South Tenasserim and the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



Nothing is known of the habits of this species, except that it 

 feeds on insects, seeds, and berries, and all the specimens ob- 

 tained have been caught in snares. 



SUB-SP. a. THE SUMATRAN FERRUGINOUS WOOD-PARTRIDGE. 

 CALOPERDIX SUMATRANA. 



Caloperdix suwatrana, Ogilvie-Grant, Bull. Brit. On. C. No. 

 ii. p. v. (1892); id. Ibis, 1892, p. 118 ; id. Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xxii. p. 224 (1893). 

 Adult Male and Female.— This sub- species only differs from the 

 pical C. oculea in having the black feathers of the mantle 

 aiked with irregular transverse bands of pale yellow, the 

 nder-parts less brightly coloured, and the basal half of the 

 reast feathers mottled and barred with black. 

 Range. — Forests and jungles of Sumatra and Java. 



II. THE BORNEAN FERRUGINOUS WOOD-PARTRIDCE. 

 CALOPERDIX BORNEENSIS. 



Caloperdix bornceusis, Ogilvie-Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. C. No. ii. 

 p. v. (1S92); id. Ibis, 1893, p. 117; id. Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xxii. p. 224 (1S93). 



