446 BIRDS OP TENASSE1UM. 



margined on one or botli webs Avith dark brown, becoming black 

 towards the terminal portion of the stripes ; the whole of the 

 top and back of the head and nape enclosed between these 

 stripes pale olive brown ; ear-coverts bright pale rufous buff; 

 from behind the ear-coverts a more or less broken black band 

 descends on either side of the neck and meets iu front at the base 

 of the throat ; the whole of the chin, cheeks and throat, includ- 

 ed within this band, white ; each feather tipped with blackish 

 brown or black ; the black band is succeeded by a deep chestnut 

 crescentic shaped pectoral band, about an inch and a half deep 

 in front, commencing from near the end of the elongated super- 

 ciliary stripe ; the lower breast below the chestnut pectoral band 

 is pale buff, the feathers closely set with broad blackish bands 

 which occupy the greater portion of the feather, and which to- 

 wards the sides are more or less freckled over with rufous buff; 

 upper abdomen and sides ferruginous buff, paler towards the 

 centre, brighter on the sides where the feathers exhibit broad 

 black bars mostly on one web only ; middle of low r er abdomen, 

 thighs, vent, and central shorter lower tail-coverts white ; lateral 

 and longer tail-coverts buffy with black bai's. 



The entire back, rump, scapulars, upper tail-coverts, pale dull 

 buff, profusely freckled and mottled all over with fine zig-zag 

 lines, which vary from deep olive brown to almost black ; the 

 freckling is so dense that but little of the ground color remains 

 visible ; the tertiaries and the greater portiou of the coverts are 

 mottled very similarly to the back, as are also the exterior webs 

 of most of the secondaries, but these latter have a somewhat 

 more ferruginous tinge, and the coverts exhibit larger patches 

 of a pale yellowish buff aud again of unmottled dark brown ; 

 the primaries, the inner webs of the secondaries and the earlier 

 greater coverts of the former, uniform, rather pale hair brown ; 

 the tail is hair brown, mottled and freckled with dull ferrugi- 

 nous and blackish brown. 



Axillaries and wing-lining, except in the neighbourhood of 

 the carpal joint, pure white ; in the neighbourhood of the carpal 

 joint, brown, spotted or imperfectly barred with ferruginous red. 



The legs and feet appear to have been light colored, yellowish 

 or fleshy ; the central toe nail is very much dilated on the inner 

 side. 



Length about 10 inches ; wing, 6 '5 ; tarsus, 1*7 ; mid 

 toe and claw, T55 ; bill to forehead through feathers, 1*0 

 nearly. 



I am rather inclined to consider this bird generically sepa- 

 rable from the true Arboricolas, and intermediate in some res- 

 pects between these aud the Bambusicolas, in which case it would 

 stand as Peloperdix. 



