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crops mixed with these." I have also found their crops full of a 

 millet (Bajra) and of paddy. 



They are very good eating and are better and more gamj^ than 

 most of our Indian partridges. No finer way of cooking them can 

 be found than rolling them up in a ball of clay and roasting them 

 in the ashes of a good strong fire. They should be rolled up, fea- 

 thers, entrails and all, and then when the burnt clay is broken open 

 the feathers and skin will come away with the clay, and a most 

 juicy morsel remain to be eaten. 



Galloperdix spadicea stewarti. 



Stewart's Red Spur-Fowl. 



Galloperdix spadiceus. — Blyth, Oat. Mus. As. Soc, p. 241 (1849) (part) ; Da- 

 vison, Str. Feath. x., p 410 (1883) (part) ; Bourdillon, J. B. N.H. Soc. xvi., 

 p. 4. (1904) (Travancore). 



Galloperdix spadicea. — Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. M. sxii. p. 261 (1893) 

 (part) ; id, Man. Game-B. i., p. 206 (1895) (part) ; Blanford, Avi. Brit. 

 In. iv., p. 106 (1898) (part): Gates, Man. Game-d. In. i., p. 215 (1898) 

 (part) . 



Gallopardic spadicea steivarti. — Stuart Baker, Bull. B. O. C. xL, p. 18 

 (1919). (Aneichardi Travancore). 



VERNACULAR NAMES.— Senavoo Koli(7awu7, Travancore). 

 lescription — Adult Male. — Similar to G. s. spadicea, but very much 

 more richly coloured ; the crown is practically black, and the whole 

 of the upper parts are a bright chestnut rufous, the pale borders to 

 the feathers being absent or obsolete, the vermiculations on the 

 lower back entirely absent and on rump and upper tail-coverts al- 

 most so. Below the colour is equally intensified and rich, and the 

 chestnut colour extends right back behind the vent and on to the 

 posterior flanks. 



The type male has some grey spots on the breast, but this is 

 probably only an individual characteristic, as two males obtained by 

 Surgeon-Major Fry at Trevandrum have no such spots. It should, 

 however, be noted that whereas these spots in typical spadicea are 

 more or less circular in this bird the}^ are heartshaped, and they 

 are also bordered with black, a feature oi\\j seen, and that very 

 faintly, in one other specimen of true spadicea from Ootaca- 

 mund. 



Colours of Soft Parts as in G. s. spadicea. 



Measurements.— Wing, 145 to 161 mm., average 10 specimens, 

 154-5 mm.; tail, 123 mm. to 140 mm., average 129*6 mm.; tarsus, 

 about 50 mm. 



Adult Female. — Difiers from the adult female of spadicea in the 

 same way as the male differs from the male of that bird. The 

 colour generally is very rich and very strongly suffused with 

 rufous both above and below, and altogether it is a brighter, 

 much handsomer bird than is the typical form. 



