560 r TETRAONID/E. 



Length. 8-5 inches; wing 5; tarsus i'5 ; bill from gape 0*9; bill at 

 front 0*65 ; tail 1-5. 



Hal. The Bhootan Doars. Nothing is known of its habits, though it may 

 be presumed that they do not differ materially from those of its congeners. 



Gen. Bambusicola. 



General characters as in Arboricola ; wings short and rounded ; male tarsi 

 spurred. 



1228. BambuSiCOla Fytchii, Anderson, Yunnan Exped. ; Hume, 

 S/r. F iii. p. 399 ; id., v. p. 493 ; Hume an$ Marsh., Game Birds ii. p. 97. 

 The WESTERN BAMBOO PARTRIDGE. 



Top of head, hind neck, lower back, rump and upper tail coverts dull pale 

 olivaceous brown, more or less barred with very fine zigzag lines of a paler 

 colour ; some of the upper tail coverts mesially with a black spot ; tail rufous 

 brown, banded transversely with freckly bars of black and rufescent buff ; % wing 

 coverts, tertiaries, and longer scapulars with chestnut and black spots at the 

 tips ; sides and flanks ochraceous, with a large velvet black subterminal spot ; 

 chin pale ochraceous ; lores, a streak above the black streak behind the 

 eye, sides of the face and cheeks ochraceous ; breast tinged with chestnut ; 

 primaries chestnut on the outer webs ; bill dark brown ; irides hazel brown ; 

 legs pale greenish grey. 



Length. 14 to 14-3 inches; wing 6-1 to 6-45 ; tail from vent 4-62 to 5' 13; 

 tarsus 175 to 1^93 ; bill from gape 0*9 to 097. Females average smaller. 



Length. 12-5 to 13 inches, with a wing of 5-6 to 5*8. 



Hab. Shillong, in the Khasia hills, also in the Garo, North Cachar and 

 Naga hills, and probably the hill ranges of Upper Burmah and Assam. It is 

 said to be a shy bird, and to frequent dense grass. 



Gen. Caloperdix. Biyth. 



Bill longer and stouter than in Arboricola ; tarsus stout and strong, double- 

 spurred in the males. Plumage of the sexes alike. 



1229. Caloperdix OCUlea (Temm.), Salvad., Ucc. Born. p. 310; 

 Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 449; Hume and Marsh., Game Birds 2nd. iii. 

 p. 101, pi. ; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. in; Oates, B. Br. Burm.\\.^. 329. 

 Perdix oculea, Temm., Pig. et Gall. iii. p. 732. Tetrao ocellatus Raffl., Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 322. Caloperdix ocellata, Blyth, B. Burm. p. 151. The 

 FERRUGINOUS WOOD PARTRIDGE. 



Whole head, neck, breast, and abdomen chestnut, darkest on the crown 

 and palest on the throat ; a streak over the eye paler chestnut than the other 

 parts ; tips of the ear coverts black ; lower abdomen and vent ashy white ; base 

 of the neck above, back, scapulars, sides of the breast and of the body black, 



