THE FERRUGINOUS WOOD-PARTRIDGE. 329 



Genus CALOPERDIX, Bl. 



684. CALOPERDIX OCULEA. 

 THE FERRUGINOUS WOOD-PARTRIDGE. 



Perdix oculea, Tcmm. 7V//. ct (ndl. iii. 2nd. p. 732. Tetrao ocellatus, Raffl. Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 322. Caloperdix oculea, Salvad. Ucc. Horn. p. 310 ; Hume $ 

 Dav. S. F. \i. p. 449 ; Hume $ Marsh. Game Birds, ii. p. 101, pi. ; Hume, S. F. 

 viii. p. 111. Caloperdix ocellata, Bl. B. Burm. p. 151. 



Description. Male and female. The whole head, neck, breast and abdo- 

 men 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, the back, 

 scapulars, sides of the breast and of the body black, 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 rich 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 web 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. 



Legs and feet pale dirty green; bill black; irides deep brown. (Da- 

 vison.) 



Length 11 inches, tail 2*5, wing 5*8, tarsus T8, bill from gape 1. The 

 female appears to be of the same size. 



The Ferruginous Wood-Partridge has been met with in Tenasserim south 

 of Mergui. At Malewoon and Bankasoon it appears to be tolerably 

 abundant ; for my men procured one specimen, which they were not likely 

 to have done had the bird been rare. 



It is found throughout the Malay peninsula and Sumatra, and probably 

 also in Borneo. 



Nothing is known of this species. The natives appear to snare them 

 easily ; but they seem difficult to shoot. 



