JOURNAL U, SEP? 1927 ^ 



OF THE ^^^^r^AL Mus3^ 



Bombay Natural History Society. 



July 1921. Vol. XXVII. No. 4. 



THE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON. 



BY 



E. C. Stuart Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



Part XXX. 



With a Coloured Plate. 

 (Continued from page 430 of this Volume.) 



G^^us—ARBORICOLA. 



Genus Arboricola, Hodg., 1844. 

 Hill Partridges. 



The genus Arboricola contains a group of birds very typical little 

 partridges in general appearance, but differing both in habits and iu 

 many important osteological and other characters. 



The legs are longer comparatively than they are in the genera 

 Perdix and Francolinus and have no spurs ; the claws are very long and 

 straight. The wing is short and rounded ; the first primary is equal 

 to the eighth— tenth, and the third, fourth and fifth are sub-equal and 

 longest. There is a supra-orbital chain of bones, a feature which 

 suffices to separate this genus not only from the true partridges, but 

 also from the more nearly allied genera, Trojncoperdix and Galoperdix. 



The tail is about half the length of the wing and consists of 14 rather 

 soft feathers. 



This genus extends from the hills and mountains of the North and 

 North-East of India, through Burma, Yunnan, Siam and the Malay 

 Peninsula to Sumatra, Borneo and Java, and probably to Luzon in the 

 Philippines. 



