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each feather with a subterminal white bar; lower back and rump black, each 

 feather with a central oval spot of chestnut ; upper tail coverts black, each 

 feather with an irregular V-shaped mark of chestnut ; flanks chestnut, with 

 oval black drops; thighs plain chestnut; under tail coverts mixed chestnut 

 and black, the longer ones black, tipped with fulvous white ; tail brownish 

 black, the two centre pairs of feathers irregularly marked with zigzag lines 

 of pale fulvous ; primaries plain brown, all but the first three tipped with 

 fulvous ; secondaries brown, edged on the outer webs with fulvous, the edging 

 increasing in extent till it occupies the whole of the web on the inner 

 secondaries ; tertiaries and coverts liver brown, each feather with a black drop 

 near the tip and the coverts narrowly edged with rufous ; under wing coverts 

 brown. (Oates.) Legs and feet pale dirty green; bill black ; irides deep brown, 

 (Davison) 



Length. 1 1 inches; tail 2-5 ; wing 5-8; tarsus i'8; bill from gape I. 



Hal. British Burmah in Tenasserim, south of Mergui ; tolerably abundant 

 at Malewoon and Bankasoon. Found also throughout the Malay Peninsula 

 and Sumatra. 



Gen. RollulUS. Bonn. 



Claw of the hind toe wanting ; no spurs ; head crested ; bare orbital space 

 crimson. 



1230. Rollulus roulroul(SV^.), Wald., Ibis, 1872, p. 382; Salvad., 



Ucc. Born. p. 308 ; Hume and Dav., Str. F. vi. p. 448 ; id., Str. F. viii. p. I li ; 

 id. and Marsh., Game Birds ii. p. 103, pi. ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 330. 

 Phasianus roulroul, Scop., Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 93. Tetrao 

 viridis, GmeL, Sytt. Nat. i. p. 761. Columba cristata, Gm., Syst. Nat. \. 

 p. 774. Perdix coronata, Lath., Suppl. Ind. Orn.pl. Ixii. Rollulus cristatus, 

 Blyth and Wald., B. Burm. p. 151. The RED-CRESTED WOOD PARTRIDGE. 



A. long crest of feathers from the hinder part of the crown to the nape 

 maroon ; base of crest in front white ; head and neck black ; lower plumage, 

 sides of the breast and lesser wing coverts bluish black ; median and greater 

 coverts, secondaries and tertiaries dark brown, freckled more or less with 

 rufous brown on the outer webs ; back, rump and upper tail coverts glossy 

 bluish green ; tail black ; outer webs of primaries rufous, freckled with 

 brown ; inner webs plain brown. 



The female has no crest, but there are a few hairs springing from the fore- 

 head, the whole head and neck are grey, and there is a band of dull black on 

 the hind neck ; whole of the plumage green, washed with slaty on the abdo- 

 men and vent ; tail slaty brown ; wings and their coverts chestnut, more or 

 less freckled with brown. Legs, feet and base of bill scarlet-red ; rest of bill 

 black ; irides slaty grey; facial skin bright red. 



Length.- ii inches; tail 2'$ ; wing 5'$ ; tarsus r6; bill from gape o'S. 

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