Genera Bambusicola and Arboricola. 395 



Arboricola mandellii, Hume & Marsh. Game B. ii, p. 83, 



pi. (1879). 



Hab. Low hills of Bhootan and Native Sikhim. 



This beautiful species is now represented in the British 

 Museum by eleven specimens, which were all obtained by 

 Mr. Mandelli's collectors, and now form part of the Hume 

 Collection. 



■\7. Arboricola gingica. (Plate IX.) 



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

 (1782) [male only]. 



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



Pej^dix gingica, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 648 (1790) ; Temm. 

 Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 410, 733 (1815). 



Arboricola gingica, Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 174. 



Hab. Quite uncertain ; possibly the island of Luzon, cer- 

 tainly not the Coromandel coast. 



This species was first described by Sonnerat*, who, though 

 he calls it " La Perdrix de Gingi,^' does not say where his 

 specimen was obtained. On this description Gmelin based 

 his " Tetrao gingicus," and gave as the habitat " Gingi in Coro- 

 mandel.'' In 1815 Temminck redescribed the species under 

 the name of Perdix gingica, from a bird in his own collection, 

 and remarked that he had seen a similar specimen in London. 

 If this specimen ever formed part of the British Museum 

 Collection, it is now no longer there. 



In this Journal for 1870 (p. 174) Blyth again described the 

 same species as Arboricola gingica, from a bird intheLeyden 

 Museum (no doubt the same as that described by Temminck), 

 and it is this specimen which^ by the kind permission of 

 Dr. Jentink, and with the help of that most obliging orni- 

 thologist Mr. Biittikofer, is figured in the accompanying 

 beautiful Plate by Mr. Keulemans. 



In the ' Journal fiir Ornithologie,' 1866, p. 25, Dr. E. von 

 Martens (see p. 390) briefly describes a specimen preserved 



* The bird described by Sonnerat as the female of the " Perdrix de 

 Gingi " is, as already pointed out on p. 388, undoubtedly a species of 

 Bambusicola, probably at present unknown. 



