130 PHASIAXIDJE. 



sides of face, chin, and throat white, the feathers with blackish 

 tips ; ear-coverts brown ; fore neck and sides of neck rufous with 

 black spots ; crown and nape brown with an olive tinge ; upper 

 parts from the neck and upper breast similar, but more rufous, 

 with close narrow crescentic black bars, and the lower back, rump, 

 scapulars, and wing-coverts mottled with rufous ; quills brown, 

 outer webs of secondaries with mottled pale rufous bars ; tail 

 rufous brown with irregular black cross-bars ; middle of lower 

 breast ferruginous red; middle of abdomen buffy white ; sides rf 

 both flanks and lower tail-coverts p^le ferruginous, with irregular 

 black blotches and bars ; axillaries and a patch of downy feathers 

 on the flanks behind them white. Sexes alike. 



Bill dusky red at base, the remainder greenish ; eyelids and 

 orbital skin purplish ; legs greenish, claws yellow (Oates). 



Length about 11'5; tail 3; wing 6-25; tarsus 1-6; bill from 

 gape -9. 



Distribution. Locally distributed in the evergreen forests on the 

 eastern slopes of the Pegu Yoma and throughout Tenasserim, 

 from the extreme north as far south as Tavoy. 



Habits, fyc. Like its allies, this is an inhabitant of forests, found 

 sometimes in pairs, sometimes in small parties, feeding on seeds 

 and insects, and but rarely seen to fly. Davison notices that, like 

 the Arboricolas, these birds come about midday to forest streams to 

 drink, and they may be seen on pathways early in the morning. 

 The note is a low, soft, double whistle. The eggs have not been 

 recorded. 



The other species, T. charltoni, inhabits the southern part of the 

 Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and N. Borneo. Hume repeatedly 

 refers to a story, which he discredits, of this species having been 

 brought from Southern Tenasserim ; but I cannot find any trust- 

 worthy record of a Burmese habitat *. T. charltoni may be recog- 

 nized by having the back vermiculated and speckled throughout, the 

 upper breast chestnut, and the legs red. 



Genus CALOPERDIX, Blyth, 1865. 



This genus has the tail, of 14 feathers, less than half the length 

 of the rounded wing, as in Arboricola, but is distinguished by its 

 shorter feet, by its much shorter though straight claws, that of the 

 hallux being rudimentary, and by the tarsus, which is considerably 

 longer than the middle toe and claw, being armed with one or 

 two spurs in males. Sexes alike in coloration. 



Two or three species or races are known from the Malay 

 Peninsula. Sumatra, Borneo, and Java ; one ranges into Southern 

 Tenasserim. 



* Blyth, ' Ibis,' 1867, p. 160, gave " Tenasserim Mountains " as the locality of 

 this and also of T. chlorous, but the insertion in the case of T. charltoni is a 

 palpable misprint. 



