ARBORICOLA. 557 



Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 1 1 1 ; Hume and Marsh., Game Birds ii. p. 87 pi. ; 

 Bingham, Str. F. ix. p. 195 ; Oates, Str. F. x. p. 236 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. 

 ii. p. 325. Arborophilabrunneipectus, Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 449; iii. p. 174 ; 

 Wald. t Ibis, 1875, p. 459. The BROWN-BREASTED HILL PARTRIDGE] 



Forehead and supercilium, which extends to the nape, fawn colour ; lores, 

 circle round the eye, a line continued from behind the eye over the ear coverts 

 to the sides of the neck black, forming in the latter a large black patch, 

 behind which and around the throat and upper breast are spots of black ; 

 crown and nape olive brown, the feathers tipped with black ; hind head nearly 

 all black ; back and scapulars olive brown, barred, straight or lunately with 

 black ; rump olive brown with but few bars ; upper tail coverts plain olive 

 brown ; tail olive brown, mottled with black ; primaries brown, their tips mottled 

 with rufescent ; secondaries brown, edged on the outer webs with pale 

 chestnut ; tertiaries and longer scapulars olive brown, tipped with chestnut 

 and a subterminal black oval patch ; wing coverts olive brown, some of the 

 median and greater series with large black patches ; breast uniform tawny or 

 ferruginous olive ; middle of abdomen and vent whitish ; sides of abdomen and 

 body tawny, the feathers with a large white spot and edged in crescent form 

 with black ; under tail coverts tawny brown barred with black. Bill black ; 

 eyelids, orbital patch, and gular skin bright red, very thinly covered with 

 feathers ; legs and feet dull coral to bright red. 



Length. 10*6 to ir6; wing 5*2 to 6; tail 2*i to 2*6; tarsus 1-5 to r8; 

 bill from gape ro to ri. Females are smaller and average only 10 inches in 

 length. 



Hal. The Pegu hills on the eastern spurs and Tenasserim, as far south 

 as Tavoy. Oates adds that it is common in densely-wooded ravines and 

 nullahs. They skulk in the undergrowths, and would seldom be seen were 

 they not to come to the beds of streams to drink and bathe. 



1224. Arboricola chloropus (Tickell), Biyth, J. A. S. B. xviii. 



P 453 ; B(yth B- Burmah, p. 150 ; Hume and Dav., Str. F. vi. p. 444 ; 

 Hume, Str. F. viii. p. in ; Hume and Marsh,, Game Birds ii. p. 91, pi. 

 Bingham, Str. F. ix. p. 195 ; Oates, Str. F. x. p. 236; id., B. Br. Burmah 

 ii. p. 326. Tropicoperdix chloropus (Tickell), Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxviii. 

 p. 415. Arborophila chloropus, Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 449. Peloperdix 

 chloropus, Hume, Str. F. iii. p. 176. The GREEN-LEGGED HILL-PARTRIDGE. 

 Forehead and supercilium continued on to the sides of the nape and 

 meeting behind white, the feathers slightly edged with blackish; crown and 

 nape rich olive brown ; the back, scapulars, tertiaries, lesser wing coverts, 

 rump, and upper tail coverts rich olive brown tinged with fulvous and 

 irregularly but closely barred with blackish ; primaries dark brown, freckled 

 on the outer webs with fulvous ; greater coverts and secondaries freckled and 

 marked with fulvous and pale rufous ; tail rufous brown, with freckles and 



