KOLLULUS. Ill 



chestnut stripe ; scapulars, tertiaries, and most of the secondary 

 coverts each having a large subterminal chestnut patch, becoming 

 black towards the end, and a whitish-buff margin ; lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts brown, vermiculated with buff and 

 with a few black spots ; primaries and their coverts rufous, browner 

 towards the tips ; secondary quills and tail-feathers rufous brown 

 irregularly barred with buff, especially oh the outer webs ; upper 

 breast dull chestnut, the sides of the feathers greyish brown with 

 white spots ; rest of lower parts buff, the sides of the lower breast 

 (and sometimes the middle also), the Hanks, and frequently the 

 loxver tail-coverts with large black heart-shaped subtermiaal spots. 



Bill brown ; hides orange-hazel ; legs and feet grey or greenish 

 grey (Hume). 



Length about 14 inches ; tail 4-8 ; wing 6 ; tarsus 1-8 : bill from 

 gape '9. 



Distribution. Throughout the Garo, Khasi, Naga, and other parts 

 of the Assam hills south of the Brahmaputra, ranging through 

 Manipur to the Kakhyeng hills between Upper Burma and 

 Yunnan. 



Habits, dfc. A shy bird, inhabiting forest jungle and high grass. 

 The call is said to be loud and harsh, quite different from the soft 

 whistle of Arboricola. Otherwise the habits are somewhat similar. 

 The breeding-season, according to Captain Cock's note in Hume 

 and Marshall's ' Game Birds,' is in May and June, but the eggs have 

 not been found. 



Genus ROLLULUS, Bonn., 1790. 



This very peculiarly coloured genus contains but a single species, 

 distinguished by its green coloration, which, however, is very 

 different in the two sexes, by a thick occipital crest of red, very 

 loose-textured hair-like feathers, covering the occiput in the male, 

 and by a tuft of hair-like bristles from the middle of the forehead 

 in both sexes. The tarsus is longer than the middle toe and claw, 

 the claws are of moderate size, that of the hind toe rudimentary 

 or wanting. The tail is of 12 soft feathers, rounded and less than 

 half the length of the wing, in which the 1st primary is about equal 

 to the loth and the 4th and 5th are longest. 



1353. Rollulus roulroul. The Green Wood-Quail. 

 Phasianus roulroul, Scop. Del. Flor.et Faun. Insub. ii, p. 93 ("1786). 

 Phasianus cristatus, Sparnn. Mus. Carls, fasc. iii, no. 64 (1788). 

 Perdix coronata, Lath. Suppl. Ind. Orn. p. Ixii (1801). 

 Rollulus cristatus, Bluth, Cat. p. 253 ; Blyth $ Wald. Birds Burm. 



p. 151. 

 Rollulus roulroul, Walden, Ibis, 1872, p. 382 ; Hume Sf Dav. S. F. 



vi> p. 448; Hume, Cat. no. 831 ter ; Hume 8f Marsh. Game B. ii, 



p. 103, pi. ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 330 ; Offline Grant, Cat. B. M. 



xxii, p. 225. 



Coloration. Male. Crest coppery to purplish red ; a broad white 

 band in front across the vertex ; remainder of head and neck, with 



