THE ARRAKAN HILL-PARTRIDGE. 327 



Phcenicoperdix chloropus, given by Mr. Gray from Moulmein (Hand-list, 

 ii. p. 269), is probably the same species. I have been unable to detect 

 in the British-Museum collection the specimen referred to by Mr. Gray. 



682. ARBORJCOLA INTERMEDIA. 

 THE ARRAKAN HILL-PARTRIDGE. 



Arboricola intermedia, Bl. J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 277 ; Hume, 8. F. viii. p. Ill ; 

 Hume $ Marsh. Game Birds, ii. p. 85, pi. Arborophila intermedia, Hume, 

 S. F. ii. p. 450 ; Gates, S. F. iii. p. 344. 



Description. Male and female. Throat and fore neck black; below this 

 a rufous patch ; breast and upper abdomen dark grey ; ear-coverts, cheeks, 

 sides of the neck and feathers under the eye black, the bases of the feathers 

 rufous and showing up ; front of the head as far back as the eyes pale 

 grey ; remainder of the head and nape hair-brown, streaked with black ; 

 these streaks increasing in size and on the upper neck becoming large drops, 

 above which are narrow crescentic marks of pale buff ; lores and a broad 

 supercilium reaching to the back of the head greyish white, each feather 

 with a central black streak ; 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 ; sides of the body chestnut, each 

 feather with a large grey patch, inside of which there is a long and narrow 

 white streak ; the lower abdomen greyish white ; flanks and thigh-coverts 

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

 tip tail olive-brown mottled with black and the outer feathers tipped with 

 white ; primaries brown, narrowly edged and tipped with pale buff ; secon- 

 daries 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. 



Length 11-5 inches, tail 3, wing 5*5, tarsus 1'5, bill from gape 1*1. 

 There does not appear to be much difference in size between the sexes. 



The Arrakan Hill-Partridge is confined in Burmah, so far as is at present 

 known, to the Arrakan hills. All the specimens I have seen were procured 

 between Nyoungyeedouk and Nyoungyo, on the road leading from Prome 

 to Tonghoop. 



Colonel Godwin- Austen procured it in Cachar and the Naga hills. 



This species is closely allied to the next, but may be distinguished by 

 the throat and fore neck being black. 



