THE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON. EG 
like the back, immaculate next the neck, with wavy black bars on the 
upper breast, changing to ferruginous red on the lower breast and to 
very pale rufous-white on the abdomen ; flanks brown, mottled, barred 
and streaked with fulvous and black ; the latter often extended on to 
the lower breast, as black margins to the feathers. 
Colour of Soft Parts—Bill apple-green or horn-green, dusky-red at 
the base and with the tip a little darker ; iris brown or red-brown ; 
ey¢lids and orbital skin purple-red ; legs dull greenish, greenish yellow 
or apple-green ; claws yellow-horny. 
Measurements— Wing, males from 152 to 166 mm., average 157, 
female, 148-158, average 153 mm. ; the tarsus measures from 43 to 45 
mm. and the bill from the forehead 18-19 mm. ; tailabout 76mm. The 
total length is about 300 mm. 
“ Weight, 8 to 10 ozs.” (Hume). 
Disiribution.—Kastern Pegu and Tennasserim as far South as Tavoy. 
To the North it evidently will eventually be found throughout Eastern 
Burma and the Western Shan States. Harington obtained it at 
Bhamo and Khamaing, Major Whitehead and Harington both shot it at 
Myitkyna and Major Nisbett got it much further North again at 
Katha. In Siam Gyldenstolpe reports it as “ fairly abundant in the 
Northern Hill Forests ; also recorded from Klong Menao in the Eastern 
parts of the country, and Gairdner states that it occurs in the provinces 
of Ratburi and Pechaburi.” It extends East into Cochin China. 
Nidification.—Nothing recorded. 
Habits—Col. Tickell, who discovered this little partridge in Tennas- 
serim, wrote as follows concerning its habits, etc., in that portion’ of 
Burma :— 
“It appears tolerably numerous, but, as far as my observa- 
tions go, is entirely confined to the forests on the banks of the 
Zamme River. Unlike its known congeners, it avoids mountains 
and inhabits low, though not humid jungles, where the ground 
merely undulates or rises into hillocks. Like the rest of its tribe 
it is difficult to flush, and runs with great rapidity, jumping 
adroitly over obstacles, and diving into impenetrable thickets for 
security. Early in the mornings these birds come out on the path- 
way, scratching about amongst the elephants’ dung and turning 
over the dead leaves for insects. They do not appear to have 
any crow or call, but in the pairing season this may not be the 
case. The Karens do not even know the bird, but this is no 
proot of its rarity, for these people pay no attention to the living 
products of their forests. 
“The sexes are precisely similar in plumage and size; the 
flesh is rather dry and tasteless.” 
Oates’ experience of these birds differed considerably from Col. 
‘Tickell’s, for he found them only in the steepest ravines and valleys, 
-and nearly always in dense evergreen growth. 
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