THE GAME BIRBS OF INDIA, BVRMA AND CEYLON. 6o3 



Cat. B. M., xxii, p. 207, (1893) ; id, Hand-L., Game-B., i, p. 160, 

 (1895) ; Gates, Game-B., i, p. 133, (1898) ; Blanf., Avifauna, B. I. iv, 

 p. 125, (1898) ; Stuart Baker, J. B. N. H. S., xii, p. 490, (1899), (N. 

 Cachar) ; Bailey, ibid, xxiv, p. 77, (1915), (Tibet). 



Hyloperdix torqueola — Sundevall, Tentamen, p. 116, (1872). 



Arhoricola torqueolus — Hume, S. F., viii, p. Ill, (1879) ; Scully, ibid, 



p. 349, (1879), (Nepal) ; Hume and Marsh, Game-B., ii, p. 69, "(1879). 



Vernacular Names — Peunra, Ban-titur, {N. Kumaon) ; Kohum- 



but, {Lepcha) ; Sipung Lulu, {Tibetan) ; Pao-er, {Chulikatta Mishmi) ; 



Peora, (Nepalese) ; Dao-bui, {Cachari) ; Inrui-Wliip, {Kacha Naga). 



Description — Adult Male. — Crown to nape bright chestnut, the latter 

 more or less spotted with black ; narrow line across forehead, lores, 

 cheeks and bold supercilia black, the last mixed with white next the 

 crown and nape ; ear-coverts golden-rufous ; a line under the black 

 supercilia chestnut spotted with black ; upper parts golden olive- 

 brown, each feather margined with black and with two or three narrow 

 crescentic bars of the same, rump and upper tail-coverts similar olive- 

 brown with bold black centres and very narrow black margins ; central 

 tail feathers olive-brown, mottled with black, outer feathers brown 

 with chestnut-buff margins. 



Scapulars, wing-coverts and innermost secondaries light golden- 

 brown, with large spots and narrow margins of black and broad 

 splashes of deep bright chestnut ; primaries and remaining seconda- 

 ries dark brown, the former with narrow rufous margins and the 

 latter with mottled borders of rufous and brown. 



Chin, throat, f oreneck and sides of neck black, the neck with streaks 

 of white ; a moustachial streak of white, sometimes more or less 

 marked with black ; a white band dividing f oreneck from breast ; 

 breast grey, varying considerably from dark pearly grey to almost 

 slate grey ; centre of abdomen white ; flanks and sides of abdomen 

 grey with a few white drops or streaks in the centres of the feathers, 

 and the greater part of the inner webs deep chestnut ; greater part of 

 vent rufous-white with black bars ; under tail-coverts black and white. 

 Colours of Soft Parte.— Bill black ; irides brown or red-brown, in rare 

 cases almost a crimson-brown ; legs dull fleshy, fleshy-grey, sometimes 

 grey or livid grey, but seldom without some tinge of flesh colour which 

 becomes more pronounced in the breeding season ; orbital skin crim- 

 son -red, brighter and deeper in the breeding season than at other times. 

 Measurements.— Whig 148 to 161 mm., average of 30 birds 153 ; 

 tarsus 44 to 45 mm., bill at front about 20 mm., and from gape about 

 25 mm. In length the live bird is about 250 to 270 mm. (10-12 

 inches) and Hume gives the weight as " 8 ozs. in a small female to 

 13" 6 ozs. in a large fat male." 



Jerdon describes the leg as red, a colour they never are in this spe- 

 cies ; Scully, on the other hand, calls it brownish-ohve, which does 

 sometimes properly describe those of the female. 



