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roosting, the whole covey generally snuggle close in to one another 
on the same perch like a family of Munias or Love-birds, and the pot 
hunter might well be able to wipe out the whole covey at one shot did 
he ever get the chance, but, as a matter of fact, often as I have 
disturbed them from trees, it is but seldom I have seen them before 
they saw or heard me and flew off. On the rare occasions I have seen 
them I have generally been on the track of big game, and have been 
sneaking along as silently as possible. 
They eat grain and insect food indiscriminately, and also buds and 
leaves of many kinds. I have killed them with their crops full of 
paddy, bajra (a kind of millet), mustard shoots and leaves, and often 
with beetles, grubs, larvee and ants, of which latter they seem to be 
especially fond. White ants or termites, they, of course, in common 
with almost every bird, are very greedy over, not only seizing them as 
they run about or fall to the ground, but also as they fly from the 
ground, hopping high ito the air alter them and sometimes fluttering 
a few feet in pursuit of them. 
The Nagas and other Hill Tribes catch these Hill Partridges in 
exactly the same manner as that described by Col. Godwin-Austen, 
and they also take numbers in single spring nooses set with a single 
termite as bait. In these latter traps the birds are nearly always 
killed, for the bamboo springs are very strong, and as the birds are 
invariably caught by the neck, the jerk back generally dislocates this. 
They form an excellent table dish, rather dry, but very sweet and 
very tender unless extra old. 
They are easy to tame and keep in captivity, and not quarrel- 
some either with other birds or with those of their own genus, but they 
must have ample room, some cover and a diet with a liberal amount 
of animal food, andif insects are unobtainable, a small amount of 
chopped liver seems to suit them admirably. 
ARBORICOLA RUFOGULARIS TICKELLI. 
Tickell’s Red-throated Hill Partridge. 
Arboricola tickelli— Hume, 8. ¥. Game-B., ii, p. 77 and footnote, p. 
78, (1880), (Mooleyit, Tennasserim). 
Arboricola rufogularis—Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. M., xxn, p. 212, 
(1893), (part) ; Blanf., Avifauna, B. I., iv, p. 126, (1898), (part). 
Arboricola rufogularis—Hume and Davis, 8. F., vi, p. 414, (1878), 
(Muleyit) ; Barnby Smith, Avicul. Mag., 11, 10, p. 294, (Aug. 1911). 
Vernacular Names.—Toung-kha, (Burmese). 
Description—Adult Male and Female.—Similar to rufogularis, but 
with no black band below the rufous of the throat and neck. The 
white of the cheeks and cheek-stripe is perhaps more conspicuously 
white, and the lower parts are decidedly paler, and with far more 
white on the abdomen. I cannot find any distinguishing character 
between the male and the female in colour. 
