126 PHASIAXIDA, 



ranges north of Manipur*. This species is commonest between 

 5000 and 8000 or 9000 feet, but is found occasionally at con- 

 siderably higher elevations up to 14,000. 



1363. Arboricola rufigularis. Blytlis Hill-Partridge. 



Arboricola rufojrularis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xviii, p. 819 (1849) ; id. 



Cat. p. 253 ; Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 578 ; Beaoan, Ibis, 1868, p. 385 ; 



Hume, S. F. v, p. 114; Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi, p. 444; Hume, 



Cat. no. 825 ; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 349 : Hume fy Marsh. Game B. 



ii, p. 75 ; Gates, B. B. ii, p. 328 ; alvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 



(2) v, p. 620 ; vii, p. 426 ; Ogilme Grant, Cat. B. M. xxii, 



p. 212. 



Arboriphila rufogularis, Hume, S. F. ii, p. 450. 

 Arboricola rufigularis, Blyt.h $- Wald. Birds Sunn. p. 150 ; Godw.- 



Aust. J. A. S. B. xlv, pt. 2, p. 84 ; Gates in Humes N. $ E. 



2nd ed. iii, p. 439. 

 Arboricola tickelli, Hume, Game B. ii, pp. 73, 78. 



The Rufous-throated Hill- Part ridge, Jerdon ; Peura, Kumaun ; Kohum- 

 but, Lepcha ; Pokhu, Daphla. 



Coloration. Crown olive-brown, streaked with black, greyish 

 and unstreaked on the forehead ; lores and long supercilia greyish 

 white with black shafts ; sides of face white, speckled with black 

 except on a stripe running back from the gape ; ear-coverts dark 

 brown ; chin, throat, and sides of neck, united more or less behind 

 the nape, rufous with black spots, largest behind the nape and 

 diminishing in size towards the throat ; a band on the fore neck 

 below the throat pure ferruginous red, generally, but not always, 

 divided from the breast by a black border ; upper parts golden 

 olivaceous brown, not barred with black, but with semi-oval black 

 spots on the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ; scapulars 

 and wing-coverts greyer, with large subterminal black spots and 

 chestnut edges; quills dark brown, outer webs of secondaries 

 mottled with rufous olive ; tail olive, with black markings and 

 subterminal crescentic bars ; breast and flanks slaty grey, the latter 

 with a white spot in the middle of each feather and' chestnut 

 borders ; lower flanks brown, with black crescentic spots and buffy 

 edges ; lower tail-coverts black, tipped white. Sexes alike. 



Bill black ; irides red-brown ; orbits dull lake-red ; legs red 

 (Jerdon). 



Length about 10-5; tail 2-5 ; wing 5*25 ; tarsus 1'6; bill from 

 gape -9. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from the western boundaries of 

 Kumaun through Nepal, Sikhim, and Bhutan to the Daphla hills, 

 where this species was found by Godwin-Austen, and probablv 

 farther east. It also occurs in the hill-ranges of Karenuee and 

 Tenasserim (A. tickelli), the variety there found generally wanting 



* Col. Godwin-Austen has lent his specimens to rr.e for examination, and 

 they are undoubtedly A. torqueola. There are several specimens, both males 

 and females. 



