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GAME-BIRDS. 



male has the top of the head bright chestnut, the eye stripes, sides of the face, chin, 

 and throat black, more or less margined with white, and there is a broad white 

 band across the front of the crop. In the female the top of the head is brown . 

 marked with black, and the sides of the head are rufous spotted with black, the 

 white band being absent. 



The members of the three genera now to be considered are 



"peculiar in having the nail of the first toe rudimentary. In the 



ferruginous wood-partridges {Caloperdix) the legs of the male are provided with 



one or more paii-s of spurs. The general colour of the head, neck, and under-parts 



is bright rust-red, the upper-back black and white, the lower-parts black with rusty 



BED-CRESTED WOOD-PARTRIDGES (J nat. size). 



red markings, and the wings olive-brown, spotted with black. The three species 

 respectively inhabit the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Java and Borneo. The 

 red-crested wood-partridge (Rollulus roulroul), figured in the woodcut, is an 

 inhabitant of Tenasserim and the Malay Peninsula and Islands. In both sexes there 

 is a tuft of long hair-like bristles on the middle of the forehead, and the claw on the 

 first toe is rudimentary. The male has also a long, fan-shaped maroon crest of hairy 

 feathers, and the rest of the head and neck black with a white band between the 

 eyes, the wings being maroon glossed with purplish blue, the remainder of the 

 upper-parts rich green with steely blue reflections, the under-parts black glossed 

 with blue, and the base of the bill, naked skin round the eye, as well as the legs 

 and feet, scarlet. In the female the head is blackish grey, the wings chestnut, and 

 the rest of the plumage bright grass-green, shading into greyish green on the 

 under-parts. This green colour is an unusual tint among game-birds, found else- 



