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1362. Arboricola torqueola. The Common Hill- Par tridye. 



Perdix torqueola, Valenciennes, Diet. Sci. Nat. xxxviii, p. 435 (1825). 



Perdix megapodia, Temm. PL Col. pis. 462, 463 (1828). 



Perdix olivacea, Gray in Griffith's An. Kinyd.,Aves, iii, p. 54 (1829). 



Perdix torquata, Less. Trade, p. 506 (1831). 



Arboriphila torqueola, Gray, Cat. Mamm. fyc. Coll. Hodgs. p. 127 ; 

 Hume, N. $ E. p. 544 ; id. S. F. ii, p. 449. 



Arboricola torqueola, Blt/th, J. A. S. B. xviii, p. 819; id. Cat. 

 p. 252 ; Jerdon, B. 1. "iii, p. 577 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxvii, 

 pt. 2, p. 69 ; Godw-Aust. J. A. S. B. xlv, pt. 2, p. 203 ; Hume, 

 Cat. no. 824 ; Scully, IS. F. viii, p. 349 ; Hume $ Marsh. Game B. 

 ii, p. 69, pi. ; C. H. T. Marshall, Ibis, 1884, p. 423 ; Ogilvie 

 Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 392 : id. Cat. B. M. xxii, p. 207. 



The Black-throated Hill-Partriclye, Jerdon ; Peunra, Ban-tit ar, H. 

 (Kumaun, Nepal, &c.) ; Roli, Ram Chukru^ Chamba ; Kaindal, Kaugra ; 



Coloration. Male. Crown bright chestnut ; nape the same 

 spotted with black ; ear-coverts paler rufous and with a rufous 

 streak, mixed with black, running back from them ; sides of head, 

 including lores and supercilia, and chin black; throat and sides 

 of neck the same, except that the feathers are edged with white 

 at the sides ; a white moustachial streak ; upper parts golden olive- 

 brown ; feathers of the back tipped and barred with black, the 

 subterminal bars on the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 becoming triangular spots ; scapulars, tertiaries, and wing-coverts 

 pale golden brown, broadly edged with chestnut, and all, except 

 the outer wing-coverts, with large black subterminal spots ; quills 

 dark brown; primaries narrowly bordered outside, and secondaries 

 mottled on outer web with rufous ; tail-feathers olive-brown, 

 irregularly barred and mottled with black ; a white gorget below 

 the black throat ; breast slaty grey, the feathers with narrow 

 golden-olive or rufous edges ; middle of abdomen white ; sides and 

 flanks grey, each feather with an elongate white spot and broadly 

 edged with chestnut ; lower flanks, thighs, and vent brown, with 

 buff edges and black bars ; under tail-coverts black with white tips. 



Females differ from, males in having the crown and nape brown, 

 streaked with black ; ear-coverts brown ; sides of head and the 

 whole throat rufous, with black terminal spots on the feathers ; 

 the wing-coverts are more spotted and barred with black ; a 

 ferruginous gorget above the breast, which is tinted with golden 

 buff ; the white spots on the flanks are larger and generally extend 

 to the lower breast ; they, however, disappear from the breast 

 with age, and are found there in young males also. 



Bill black ; irides brown ; orbital skin crimson in old males, 

 purplish red in younger birds and in females ; legs grey tinged 

 with reddish fleshy (Hume}. 



Length about 11; tail 3; wing 6; tarsus 1'75; bill from 

 gape *9. Males average larger than females. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from Chamba to east of Sikhim. 

 Found also by Godwin-Austen in the Naga hills and the higher 



