32. THE GREEN-LEGGED HILL- 

 PARTRIDGE. 



Arboricola chloropus, TICKELL. 



Sides of the body without any white 

 spots, but with a large patch of downy 

 white feathers partially concealed by 

 the ordinary feathers. 



Throat white spotted with black. 



Sexes alike. 



VERNACULAR NAME \-Toung-hka, Bur- 

 mese. 



THE Green-legged Hill-Partridge is found 

 generally throughout Northern and Central 

 Tenasserim from Papun on the north 

 to Tavoy on the south. It also occurs on 

 the eastern slopes of the Pegu Hills in the 

 latitude of Toungoo, where I observed it 

 to be fairly common. It probably extends 

 down these hills to Rangoon. Outside 

 of our limits it has been procured in 

 Cochin China only. 



The late Colonel Tickell, the discoverer 

 of this species, thus wrote about it (he 



