176 A FIRST LIST OF THE 



with rufous. The median coverts, the secondaries, and their 

 greater coverts broadly margined, the secondaries on the outer 

 webs only, the coverts more or less on both webs, with chestnut 

 rufous, the coverts having- also often a pale spot at the tips ; the 

 lesser coverts concolorous with the back, sometimes much more 

 broadly barred with black, so that the whole shoulder of the 

 wing appears of this color, and sometimes showing only narrow, 

 almost obsolete, edgings of this color. The tail is olive brown, 

 generally nearly concolorous with the back, with numerous 

 black, freckled, wavy lines. 



The specimens vary very greatly in several respects. In the 

 first place, in some birds the black spots on the head are very 

 small, leaving the prevailing tint olive brown ; in others they are 

 so large, becoming especially on the occiput broad tippings, as 

 to leave only a few spots of the brown peeping through here 

 and there; in some the barrings of the back are very broad 

 and conspicuous, an eighth of an inch broad perhaps ; in others 

 they are not above a twentieth of an inch wide ; in some the 

 breast is only slightly tinged with rusty ; in others very strongly 

 so, and in these latter specimens the whole bird above and 

 below is somewhat more rufescent than the specimen I have 

 described. 



I have only examined four females, but Mr. Oates vouches 

 that the males are precisely similar. 



824 quint.— Peloperdix chloropus, Tickell, (Jour- 

 nal, Asiatic Society, 1859, pp. 415 and 454). 



Mr. Oates remarks : " This species is of similar habits and like 

 distribution to the last (A. brunneopectus) . The sexes do not 

 appear to differ sensibly in size. In plumage they are absolutely 

 identical. The following are the dimensions of four specimens 

 that I measured : — 



" Length, 10*95 to 11*9; expanse, 19 to 20; tail, from vent, 

 2-6 to 3-2; wing, 575 to 6*3; bill, from gape, 0*87 to 0*92; 

 tarsus, 1-67 to 1'83. 



1 ' The irides are dark hazel brown ; bill, dusky red at base ; an- 

 terior half, greenish ; eyelids and orbital region, livid rufous ; legs, 

 greenish ; claws, yellow." 



This species was first obtained in the Amherst District of the 

 Tenasserim Provinces. Colonel Tickell, its discoverer, remarked in 

 regard to it : — 



" It appears tolerably numerous, but, as far as my observations 

 go, is entirely confined to the forests on the banks of the 

 Zummee River. Unlike its known congeners, it avoids mountains, 

 and inhabits low, though not humid, jungles, where the ground 

 merely undulates or rises into hillocks. 



