Genera Bambusicola and Arboricola. 397 



10, Arboricola brunneopectus. 



Arboricola brunneopectus, Tick. MS.; Blyth, J. As. Soc. 

 Beng. xxiv. p. 276 (1855) ; Hume & Marsh. Game B. ii. 

 p. 87, p]. (1879). 



Arborophila brunneopectus, Hume, Str. Feath. ii. p. 449 

 (1874). 



Arboj-icola brunneipectus , Blytli, Ibis, 1867, p. 159. 



Arborophila brunneipectus, Wald. Ibis, 1875, p. 459. 



Hab. From the Karen Hills, Tonghoo, and the Eastern 

 Pegu Hills, to as far south as Tavoy iu Tenasserim. 



fll. Arboricola hyperythra. 



Bambusicola hyperythra, Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 226; Gould, 

 B. Asia, vi. pi. 71 (1879). 



Hab. Lawas River, North-west Borneo. 



The type specimen in the Oxford Museum still remains 

 unique. Dr. Sharpe considered this species, as well as the 

 following, to belong to the genus Bambusicola, comparing it 

 with B. sonorivox, but in reality both are nearly allied to 

 A. brunneopectus, and along with that species form a well-, 

 marked group of Arboricola. 



tl2. Arboricola erythrophrys. 



Bambusicola hyperythra, Sharpe (nee Sharpe, 1879), Ibis, 

 1887, p. 454. 



Bambusicola erythrophrys, Sharpe, Ibis, 1890, pp. 139, 

 284, 288, 289, pi. iv. 



Hab. Mount Kina Balu, North Borneo. 



This species is still known only from the specimens 

 met with by Mr. Whitehead. It was not obtained by Mr. Hose 

 during his recent expedition to Mount Dulit, though it may 

 probably occur there also. 



13. Arboricola orientalis. 



Perdix orientalis, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 184 



(1822). 

 Perdix per sonata y Horsf. Zool. Res. pi. 61 (1824). 



Tropicoperdix personata, Blyth, J. As. Soc. Beng. xxviii. 



p. 415 (1859). 



