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now, at all events, established itself as a pure species. Lineatus 

 occupies exclusively the country east of the Irrawaddy aud this 

 river, seldom less than a mile broad, would act as a boundary 

 which no weak-winged bird, like a Pheasant, would care to cross. 

 I have, unfortunately, never seen a Thayet Myo killed specimen 

 of a Pheasant, but it will, I think, turn out to be Cuvieri. Captain 

 Feilden shot two, but in those days, when we lived together in 

 Thayet Myo, neither of us knew of the existence of two species 

 closely allied. If he has the specimens still he could easily tell 

 us which of the two birds the Thayet Myo ones are. 



824 ter.— Arborophila intermedia, Blyth. 



The Arrakanese Hill Partridge appears to be the only one 

 found in that province. All the specimens I have seen came from 

 that portion of the Arrakan hills lying west of Prome. It ex- 

 tends quite to the foot of the range on the Pegu side, where a 

 specimen was shot by my friend Captain Swetenham near the 

 24th mile of the military road leading across the mountains 

 from Prome to Tonghoo. I should judge it to be veiy common 

 everywhere. Unfortunately I never shot it myself, and conse- 

 quently I am uuable to give measurements in the flesh and the 

 colors of the soft parts. 



My collector sexed two birds he preserved, a male and a 

 female ; and I have seen numerous unsexed individuals which 

 could hardly have been all of one sex. From the examination 

 of these I am pretty certain that the males and females do not 

 differ in plumage. 



The following are the dimensions of the two sexed individuals 

 referred to above, the first measurements being those of the 

 male : — Wing, 5*7, 5"5 ; tarsus, 1*5 ; middle toe and claw, 2'0, 

 1-8 ; bill, from from forehead to tip, "7, *65 ; the 4th and 

 5th primaries are sub-equal and longest ; the 3rd is from *1 

 to -15, the 2nd "25 to *5, and the 1st from '6 to *9, shorter 

 than the longest primary. The under tail-coverts reach nearly 

 to the tip of the tail. 



The coloration of the plumage is intricate and difficult to 

 describe. The throat and under side of the neck, for a distance 

 of 1^ inches from the gape, are black. Below this there is a 

 bright rufous patch which brings us to the breast. This and the 

 upper part of the belly are an uniform dark grey, though, 

 viewed in certain lights, the margins, of the feathers appear to 

 be paler. The ear-coverts, the cheeks, under the eye and the 

 sides of the neck, as far down as the base of the rufous patch, 

 are black. The bases of the feathers are however rufous and 

 shew through conspicuously, giving these parts a mottled ap- 

 pearance ; the front of the head, as fur back as a line con- 



