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Key to Species and Subspecies. 

 A. — ^Feathers of flanks with chestnut 

 borders. 



a. Breast grey. 



a\ Crown chestnut. 



a^. No chestnut on sides of neck. 



a\ Abdomen pure white . . . . A. t. torqueola d • 



b\ Abdomen rufescent white . . A. t. millardi S . 

 &^ Sides of neck more or less chest- 

 nut ■ . . . . ^ . . . A. t. hatemani s • 



h\ Crown olive-brown. 



c^ Chin and throat rufous with black 

 spots. 

 c\ No black band below red 



throat . . . . . . A. r. rufogularis. 



d\ A black band below red 



throat . . . . . . A. r. tickelli. 



d\ Chin black, foreneck rufous .^ A. r. intermedia. 



b. Breast brownish, crown olive-brown 



with black spots . . . . . . A. torqueola and sub- 



species 2 • 



c. Breast chestnut . . . . . . A. mandellii. 



B. — No chestnut on flanks. 



d. Breast grey . . . . . . . . A. atrogularis. 



e. Breast pale brown, or buify brown . . A. brunneopecta. 



* Arboricola torqueola torqueola. 

 The Common Hill Partridge. 



Olive Partridge — Latham, Gen. His., viii, p. 303, (1823), (Sylhet). 



Perdix torqueola — ^Valenc, Diet. Sci. Nat., xxxviii, p. 435, (1825), 

 (Bengal). 



Perdix megapodia — Temm., PI. Col. v., pis. 35 and 36, (1828), 

 (Bengal). 



Perdix olivacea — Grey in Griff. An. King, iii, p. 54, (1829), (Sylhet). 



Perdix torquata — ^Less. Traite Orn., p. 506, (1831), (Bengal). 



Arborophila olivacea- — Hodg. Madr. Jour., 1837, p. 303, (Nepal). 



Arboricola olivacea v. torqueola — Hodg. in Gray's Zool. Misc., p. 

 85, (1844). 



Arboriphila torqueola — Gray, Cat. Hodg. Coll., p. 127, (1846) ; 

 Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 544, (1873) ; id, S. F. ii, p. 449, (1874).' 



Arboricola torqueola — Blyth, J. A. S. B., xviii, p. 819, (1849); id. 

 Cat. B. M. A. S., p. 252, (1849) ; Adams, P. Z. S., 1858, p. 503 ; Irby, 

 Ibis, 1861, p. 236, (Kumaon) ; Jerd., B. of In., ii, p. 577, (1864) ; 

 Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 159 ; Beavan, Ibis, 1868, p. 385, (Darjeeling) : 

 Bulger, ibid, 1869, p. 170, (Tongloo and Tendong, Sikkim) ; Marshall. 

 Ibis, 1884, p. 423, (Chamba) ; Ogilvie- Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 392 ; id, 



