128 PHASIANIDJE. 



Bill black ; irides brown ; skin of head, chesks, and throat deep 

 reddish pink ; legs lobster-red (Cripps). 



Length about 11; tail 2-5; wing 5'5 ; tarsus 1'75; bill from 

 gape -9. 



Distribution. Assam south of the Brahmaputra ; the Kaga, 

 Khasi, and Garo hills, Cachar, Sylhet, Tipperah, and Chittagong. 



1366. Arboricola mandellii. The Red-lreasted Hill- Partridge. 



Arboricola nmmlellii, Hume, P. A. S. B. 1874, p. 106; id. Cat. 

 no. 825 bis ; Hume $ Marsh. Game B. ii, p. 83, pi. ; On'ilme Grant, 

 Cat. B. M. xxii, p. 214 ; WaddeM, Gazetteer Sikhim, p. 230. 



Arboriphila mandellii, Hume, S. F. ii, p. 449 (1874), iii, p. 262, pi. i. 



Coloration. Crown and nape dull chestnut, forehead and lores 

 brighter; a dark grey superciliary band commencing above 

 each eye and carried back to meet that from the opposite side 

 behind the nape ; sides of head and neck, and collar on hind neck 

 deep ferruginous with black spots ; upper parts olive, the feathers 

 of the upper back slightly fringed with blackish ; lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverfs with pointed, elongate, black spots ; 

 scapulars, tertiaries, and wing-coverts \\ith chestnut edges and 

 black subterminal spots, the latter smaller than in A. rufit/ularis : 

 quills brown, outer webs of secondaries mottled with rufous; tail 

 olive-brown ; chin and throat pale chestnut, followed by a white 

 gorget with a black border behind; most of the breast deep 

 chestnut ; lower breast and abdomen slaty grey, whitish towards 

 the vent : sides and flanks grey, the feathers with central white 

 spots and chestnut edges ; under tail-coverts olive, with white spots 

 and tipped rufous. Sexes alike. 



The colours of the soft parts have not been recorded. 



Length about 11 ; tail 2*25; wing 5*5; tarsus 1*7; bill from 

 gape -9. 



Distribution. The lower hills of Sikhim and Bhutan from 1000 

 to 6000 feet above the sea. The first specimens obtained were 

 from the Duars of Bhutan ; but the bird has since been pro- 

 cured in Sikhim by the original discoverer Mr. Mandelli and by 

 Dr. Waddell. 



1367. Arboricola brunneipectus. The Brown-breasted 

 Hill-Part rid cje. 



Arboricola brunneopectus, Tickcll, Bli/th, J. A. S. B. xxiv, p. 270 



(1855) ; Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi, p. 443 : Hume, Cat. no. 824 ter ; 



Hume fy Marsh. Game B, ii, p. 87, pi. ; Binylmm, S. F. ix, p. 195 ; 



Of/ilvie Grant, Cat. B. M. xxii, p. 216. 

 Arborophila brunneopectus, Hume, S. F. ii, p. 449 ; Hume fy Gates, 



S. F. iii, p. 174; Walden, Ibis, 1875, p. 459. 

 Arboricola brunneipectus, Bh/th &f Wald. Birds Burm. p. 150 ; Oat?*, 



B. B. ii, p. 325 ; Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) v, p. 621 ; 



vii, p. 426 ; Gates, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. x, p. 112. 



Coloration, Forehead and broad supercilia running back to the 

 sides of the neck, cheeks, ear-coverts, and chin buff ; lores, a line 



