31. THE BROWN-BREASTED 

 HILL-PARTRIDGE. 



Arboricola brunneipectus^ TICKELL. 



Sides of the body with large round 

 white spots, each spot nearly sur- 

 rounded by black, but with no trace 

 of chestnut. 



Throat and foreneck buff, the latter 

 spotted with black. 



Sexes alike. 



VERNACULAR NAME \-Toung-hka, 

 Burmese. 



THE Brown-breasted Hill- Partridge has 

 not been very frequently met with. It 

 seems to be confined to the valley of the 

 Sittang river and to the hills of Tenas- 

 serim as far south as Tavoy. I procured 

 this Partridge on the eastern slopes of the 

 Pegu Hills not far south of the old frontier 

 line between British and Native Burma. 

 Major Wardlaw Ramsay observed it on 

 the opposite side of the valley on his 

 way to Karennee, and several observers 

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