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above and another beneath the eye, the two uniting and extending 

 back above the ear-coverts to a large patch on the side of the neck, 

 black ; crown olive-brown, the feathers tipped black, sometimes (in 

 young birds ?) almost wholly black with brown bars ; nape and 

 sides of neck chiefly or wholly black, but divided from each other 

 by the superciliary stripe ; back olivaceous brown, with rather 

 broad and nearly straight black cross-bars ; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts the same, but the black bands are less numerous 

 and have some pale bars intervening ; scapulars, tertiaries, and 

 wing-coverts paler brown, with black subterminal spots and broad 

 chestnut tips ; quills dark brown, outer webs with mottled buff 

 tips, those of the secondaries broadly edged and mottled with 

 chestnut ; tail olive with black mottling ; throat and fore neck 

 thinly clad with black-tipped buff feathers, the skin conspicuous 

 between them ; breast brownish rufescent buff ; middle of abdomen 

 whitish, flanks greyer, each feather with a central round white 

 spot and a black tip ; under tail-coverts buff with subterminal 

 broad black spots. 



Bill black ; eyelids, patch behind the eye, and skin of the throat 

 red ; iris dark brown ; legs lake-red ; claws orange (Gates). 



Length about 11; tail 2*4; wing 5-5; tarsus 1'7; bill from 

 gape 1. 



Distribution. The eastern spurs of the Pegu hills in evergreen 

 forest, the ranges east of the Sitangirom Karennee as far south as 

 Tavoy, al*o the neighbourhood of the Ruby mines in Upper 

 Burma. 



Genus TROPICOPERDIX, Blyth, 1859. 



Two Burmese and Malayan forest-haunting Partridges are 

 distinguished from true Arboricola by wanting the peculiar chain 

 of superorbital ossicles, aud by somewhat different plumage, much 

 more mottled above, and with a patch of white downy leathers on 

 each side behind the axilla. 



There are two species, of which one is Burmese. 



1368. Tropicoperdix chloropus. The Green-legged 

 Hill-Par tridye. 



Tropicoperdix chloropus, Tickell, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxviii, p. 415 



(1859). 

 Arboricola chloropus, Tickell, J. A. S. B. xxviii, p. 453 ; Blyth # 



Wald. Birds Burnt, p. 150; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 444; 



Hume, Cat. no. 824 quat. ; Hume fy Marsh. Game B. ii, p. 91, pi. ; 



Binglmm, S. F. ix, p. 195 ; Gates, B. B. ii, p. 326 ; Oyiloie Grant, 



Cat. B. M. xxii, p. 219. 

 Phcenicoperdix chloropus, G. R. Grai/, Hand-l. B. ii ; p. 269 ; Hume, 



S. F. ii, p. 482 ; vi, p. 447 ; id, Cat. no. 831 bis. 

 Arborophila chloropus, Hume, 8. F. ii, p. 449. 

 Peloperdix chloropus, Hume, S. F. iii, p. 176. 



Coloration. Forehead, lores, and long supercilia dark brown, with 

 white shaft-stripes, which become much broader posteriorly ; 



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