558 TETRAONID^E. 



broken bars of black ; upper abdomen ferruginous ; lower abdomen, vent and 

 under tail coverts buffy white ; sides of the body pale ferruginous with wavy 

 bars of black. Irides hazel ; bill dusky red at base, rest greenish ; eyelids and 

 orbital skin purplish ; legs greenish. 



Length. 1 1*4 to 12 inches ; wing 6*05 to 6-6 ; tail 2-9 to 3-5 ; tarsus 17 to 

 179 ; bill from gape O 8 to 9. The females are smaller. 



ffa&.The evergreen forests of the eastern slopes of the Pegu hills ; also 

 in Tenasserim from the extreme north down to Tavoy. Habits same as the 

 last. 



1225. Arboricola intermedia, Biyth, J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 277; 



Hume, Str. F. viii. p. I l\.? t Hume and Marsh., Game Birds ii. p. 85, pi. Arboro- 

 phila intermedia, Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 450; Oates, Str. F. iii. p. 344; id., 

 B. Br. Burmah ii. p. 327. The ARRAKAN HILL-PARTRIDGE. 



Front of the head as far back as the eyes pale grey ; rest of head and nape 

 hair brown, streaked with black ; lores, and a broad supercilium reaching to 

 the back of the head greyish white, the feathers with a central black streak ; 

 ear coverts, cheeks, sides of the neck and feathers under the eye black, the 

 bases rufous and showing through ; back, rump, and upper tail coverts glossy 

 olive brown, edged darker, and all the feathers except those on the back with a 

 small lanceolate spot of black ; tail olive brown, mottled with black, the outer 

 feathers tipped with white ; primaries brown, narrowly edged and tipped with 

 pale buff ; secondaries with broader edges and tips ; tertiaries, scapulars and 

 wing coverts a mixture of chestnut, fulvous and black, the latter colour being 

 in the form of large oval spots near the tips ; throat and foreneck black, a 

 rufous patch below it ; breast and upper abdomen dark grey ; sides of the 

 body chestnut, each feather with a large grey patch, inside of which is a long 

 and narrow white streak ; lower abdomen greyish white ; flanks and thigh 

 coverts pale buff with large black spots ; under tail coverts black at base, 

 white at tip. 



Length. 10 to ii inches; wing 5*15 to 57; tail 2'2 to 2-4; tarsus 1-5 ; 

 bill from gape 0*8 to 0*9. 



Hab. Arracan hills ; also Cachar and the Naga hills. 



1226. Arboricola rufogularis, Biyfh, J. A. S. B. xviii. p. 819; 



Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 578; Blyth, B. Burm. p. 150; Hume, Str. F. v. 

 p. 114; Hume and Dav., Str. F. vi. p. 444 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 1 1 1 ; 

 Hume and Marsh., Game Birds ii. p. 75, pi.; Scully, Str. F. viii. p. 349; 

 Oates, B. Br> Burm. ii. p. 328. Arborophila rufogularis, Hume, Str. F. ii. 

 p. 450. Arboricola tickelli, Hume, in Hume and Marsh. Game Birds ii. 

 p. 78, note. The RED-THROATED HILL-PARTRIDGE. 



Very similar to A. intermedia, but differs in the throat, foreneck and sides 

 of the neck being rufous, spotted with black, instead of black, and the rufous 



