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found feathers of this bird used in the linings on several occasions. 
Mr. Masson also informed me that it bred on some of the ranges beyond 
Darjiling, at heights between 7,000 and 9,000 feet, though he failed 
to procure nests or eggs. 
There is nothing known about its habits, but it is undoubtedly a 
bird which frequents dense, damp forests, and probably keeps much 
to those which have streams or rivers running through them. 
ARBORICOLA ATROGULARIS. 
The White-cheeked Hill Partridge. 
Arboricola atrogularis—Blyth, J.A.8.B., xvii, p. 819, (1849), (Assam, 
Sylhet) ; id, Cat., B. Mus. As. Soc., p. 253, (1849) ; id, J. A. S. B., xxiv, 
p- 276, (1855) ; Jerd., B. of L., ii, p. 579, (1864), (Tippera and Chitta- 
gong); Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 159; Hume, 8. F., v, p. 44, (1877); Ander- 
son, B. of Yunnan, ii, p. 673, (1878) ; (Kachin Hills) ; Hume and Marsh., 
Game-B., ii, p. 79, (1879), Hume, 8. F., viii, p. 3, (1879) ; id, ibid, xi, 
p- 306, (1888) ; Oates ed. Hume’s N. and E, ui, p. 439, (1890) ; Ogil- 
vie-Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 393 ; id, Cat. B. M., xxii, p. 209, (1893) ; id. 
Hand-L. Game¢-B., i, p. 163, (1895) ; Blanf., Avifauna, B. L., iv, p. 127, 
(1898) ; Oates, Man. Game-B., i, p. 145, (1898) ; Stuart Baker, J. B. N. 
H. &., xii, p. 492, (1899) ; (N. Cachar) ; Oates, Cat. Eggs B. M., 1, p. 42, 
(1901) ; Stuart Baker, J. B. N. H. 5., xvu, p. 971, (1907), (Khasia 
Hills) ; Barnby Smith, Av., Mag., i, p. 128, (1909) ; Hopwood, J. B. 
N. H. §., xxi, p. 1215, (1912), (Arrakan) ; Stevens, ibid, xxi, p. 724 ; 
(1915), (Dafla and Miri Hills) ; Hopwood and Mackenzie, J. B. N. H.5., 
xxv, p. 91, (1917), (N. Chin Hills). 
Arborophila atriguaris—Hume, &. F., ii, p. 449, (1874). 
Vernacular Names.—Peura (Sylhet) ; Duboy, Dubore, (Assamese) ; 
San-batai, (Chittagong) ; Dao-bui or Daobui-yégashi (Cachari) ; Inrus- 
whip (Kacha Naga) ; Toung-kha, (Burmese) ; Wo-gam or Gam-toung 
(Kachin). 
Description.—Forehead grey, changing to olive-brown on the crown, 
and again into rufous on the nape, all the feathers with broad black 
spots ; the grey of the forehead is produced backwards as a superci- 
lium, and beneath this there is a black line, connecting with the black 
lores and upper cheeks ; back, rump and upper tail-coverts light olive- 
brown, the feathers edged at the tips, and with bars of black ; scapulars 
the same but greyer and innermost secondaries also similar but with 
bold terminal black bars and edged and mottled with rufous ; wing- 
coverts olive-grey mottled with brown, and sometimes, especially on 
the greater coverts, with a certain amount of rufous ; quills brown, 
inner secondaries mottled with rufous and brown on the outer webs, 
which are greyish towards the tips. Tail mottled olive and brown. 
Cheeks from bill to ear-coverts white, passing into rufous on the poste- 
rior ear-coverts, and with a few very fine black shaft-lines ; chin, 
throat and foreneck black ; lower neck black and white ; breast and 
