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1369. Galop srdix oculea. The Ferruginous Wood-Partridge. 



Perdix oculea, Temm. Pig. et Gall, iii, pp. 408 & 732 (1815) ; Gray 

 in Hardwicke 1 s III. 2nd. Zool. i, pi. 58. 



Cryptonyx ocellatus, Via. Zool. Journ. iv, p. 349 (1829). 



Roliulus ocellatus, Blyth, Cat. p. 253. 



Caloperdix oculea, Blytli, J. A. S. B. xxxiv, pt. 2, p. 289 ; id. Ibis, 

 1867, p. 160 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. p. 449 ; Hume, Cat. no. 831 

 quat. ; Hume 8f Marsh. Game P. ii, p. 101, pi. ; Gates, B. B. ii, 



^ p. 329 ; Or/ilrie Grant, Cat. B. M. xxii, p. 222. 



Caloperdix ocellata, Blyth $ Wald. Birds Burrn. p. 151. 



Coloration. Head, neck, and lower surface deep ferruginous red, 

 deepest on the crown, pale and albescent on the supercilia, chin, 

 and throat ; upper back black with two white bands on each 

 feather, one intramarginal, and an inner parallel or subparallel to 

 the outer ; interscapular region, rump, and tail-coverts black, with 

 deep rufous V-shaped intramarginal bands ; scapulars and wing- 

 coverts olive-brown, all except outer coverts with rounded black 

 subterminal spots ; quills dark brown, secondaries tipped and 

 mottled on the outer webs with rufous buff ; tail black, the two 

 middle feathers with rufous submarginal bands ; flanks black with 

 white bars ; lower flanks and under tail-coverts ferruginous with 

 black spots ; lower abdomen white or whitish in middle. 



Bill black; irides deep brown; legs and feet pale dirty green 

 (Davison). 



Length about 10-75; tail 2'75; wing 5*8; tarsus T85; bill 

 from gape 1. 



Distribution. The Malay Peninsula, extending into the southern- 

 most part of Tenasserim, near Bankasoon, in dense forest. A 

 closely allied race inhabits Sumatra. 



Genus CACCABIS, Kaup, 1829. 



The Red-legged Partridges, of which the present genus consists, 

 are chiefly Palaearctic, one species ranging into Northern India. 

 They are birds of moderate size and almost uniform upper plumage, 

 having the flanks conspicuously barred with black or chestnut. 

 The sexes are alike, except that the male has a blunt spur on the 

 tarsus. The tail, of 14 feathers, is slightly rounded, and about J 

 to the length of the wing. Third primary generally slightly the 

 longest, 1st about equal to 5th or 6th. 



1370. Caccabis chucar. The Chukor. 



Perdix chukar, Gray in Hardw. Ill Ind. Zool. i, pi. 54 (1830-32). 

 Chacura pugnax, Hodgs. Madras Jour. L. S. v, p. 305 (1837). 

 Caccabis chukar, Blyth, Cat. p. 251 ; Adapts, P. Z. &. 1858, p. 502 ; 



1859, p. 185; Hume, S. F. i, p. 226; id. Cat. no. 820; Scull}/, 



>V. F. viii, p. 348 ; Biddidph, Ibis, 1881, p. 93 ; Scully, ibid. p. 586 ; 



Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 309; St. John, Ibis. 1889, p. 175; Ogilme 



Grant, Cat. B. M. xxii, p. 113. 



Caccabis chukor, Jerclon, B. I. iii, p. 564 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxvii, 



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