326 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



when disturbed, usually run quietly away. I have never heard them utter 

 any note; but they are said to have a low soft whistle. They are stated to 

 live in small coveys ; but I have never seen more than four birds together, 

 and frequently only two. 



681. ARBORICOLA CHLOROPUS. 



THE GREEN-LEGGED HILL-PARTRIDGE. 



Tropicoperdix chloropus, Tick., Bl J. A. S. B. xxviii. p. 415. Arboricola 

 chloropus, Tick. J. A. S. B. xxviii. p. 453 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 150 ; Hume $ 

 Dav. S. F. vi. p. 444 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. Ill ; Hume $ Marsh. Game Birds, ii. 

 p. 91, pi. ; Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 195 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 236. Arborophila 

 chloropus, Hume, S. F. ii. p, 449. Peloperdix chloropus, Hume, S. F. iii. 

 p. 176. 



Description. Male and female. Forehead and supercilia, widening pos- 

 teriorly and meeting on the nape, white, each feather edged with blackish ; 

 chin, throat and sides of the head white, each feather tipped with black ; 

 the feathers at the base of the throat and end of the ear-coverts tinged with 

 rufous ; a collar round the neck, wide in front and narrow behind the 

 nape, ferruginous, each feather tipped black ; crown and nape rich brown ; 

 the back, scapulars, tertiaries, lesser wing-coverts, rump, upper tail-coverts 

 and the breast rich brown tinged with fulvous, irregularly and closely 

 barred with blackish ; primaries dark brown, freckled with fulvous on the 

 outer webs ; greater coverts and secondaries brown, freckled and marked 

 with fulvous and pale rufous ; tail rufous-brown, with freckles and broken 

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

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

 bold wavy bars of black ; under wing-coverts chiefly pure white. 



Iris dark hazel-brown ; bill dusky red at base, the remainder greenish ; 

 mouth flesh-colour ; eyelids and orbital skin purplish ; legs greenish ; 

 claws yellow. 



Length 11*5 inches, tail 3, wing 6, tarsus 1'7, bill from gape *9. The 

 female is rather smaller. 



The Green-legged Hill-Partridge occurs in the evergreen forests of the 

 eastern slopes of the Pegu hills; also in Tenasserim from the extreme 

 north down to Tavoy, and probably further south still. 



Dr. Tiraud records it from Cochin China, the only locality out of 

 British Burmah where it is as yet known to occur. 



I found this Partridge on the Pegu hills only in the densest and greenest 

 vegetation. Mr. Davison notes that in Tenasserim it is met with in thin 

 tree-jungle. Its habits are precisely similar to those of the last. 



