410 NoTES ON SOME BIRDS COLLECTED ON THE NILGHIRIS 
In the male the irides are orange red to wax yellow; the 
facial skin, comb, wattles, &c., pale pinky vermilion; legs and 
feet yellowish fleshy. 
Female.—Length, 17°6 ; expanse, 23°5 ; tail, 5:5; wing, 7°95 ; 
tarsus, 2°5 ; bill from gape, 1:1; weight, 1°5 lbs. 
814.—Galloperdix spadiceus, Gm. The Red Spur- 
fowl. 
This Spur-fowl occurs over the same limits as the Grey Jungle- 
fowl, but is much more numerous, and does not confine itself 
to the forests and sholas, but occurs in scrub jungle. Since 
the introduction of a close season on the Nilghiris, this species 
and all the small resident game have greatly increased in 
numbers. I have seen the present species feeding on the road- 
side in the early morning, within the limits of the town of 
Coonoor. The male has a partridge-like call heard in the 
morning and evenings during the cold weather. ‘The sexes 
do not vary in size apparently. The following is a resumé 
of the dimensions of eight specimens, four males and four 
females :— 
Length, 13°3 to 14°2 ; expanse, 18:0 to 20:3 ; tail, 4°3 to 5:7 ; 
wing, 5°4 to 65; tarsus, 1:7 to 1:9; bill from gape, 0°85 to 
1:0; weight, 11-0 to 16 ozs. 
Legs, feet, facial skin, base of bill, bright red; rest of bill 
reddish horny ; irides deep red brown. 
815.—Galloperdix lunulatus, Valenc. The Painted 
Spur-fowl. 
T have once killed this Spur-fowl on the Ghat below Coonoor. 
Mr. G. R. Dawson of Coonoor procured another there, and 
Mr. Rhodes Morgan shot one, I believe, on the Seegore Ghat. 
These are all the specimens that I know of having been 
procured.* The bird is certainly very rare on the Nilghiris. 
Ido not know of its occurrence in Wynaad or Mysore. 
822.—Ortygornis pondicerianus, Gm. The Grey 
Partridge. 
Occurs sparingly ‘on the slopes of the Nilghiris to about 
5,000 feet on the Seegore side, and it is not uncommon in 
some parts of Mysore. 
* But see “THe Gaur Birps or Inpta,” I. 246. We have had specimens sent 
us from the Orange Valley below Kotagherry, and at least half a dozen localities about 
the bases of the Nilghiris.—Ep., S. F. 
