1865.] Scientific Intelligence. 289 



8. a. beuxneopectus, Tickell. (J. A. 8. XXIV, 276.) Tenas- 

 seriin mountains. 



4. a. javanica. (Brown, J. A. Zool. pi. XVII; Tenim., p. c. 

 1488 : but qucere — the reel surrounding the eye?) Java. 



5. a. (?) aeruginosa. (Eyton. P. Z. S. 1839, p. 106.) Malayan 

 peninsula. 



b. With the throat thinly clad with feathers, shewing 

 the crimson skin beneath. 



6. a. personata. (Horsfield, Zool. Pes. in Java, fig. ; Tr. Lim. 

 Soc. XIII, 184.) Sumatra (?) and Java. 



7. a. atrogularis, nobis. (J. A. S. XVIII, 819 ; Perdix oliva- 

 cea of Buchanan Hamilton's drawings, not of Gray, Hardw. III. 

 Ind. Zool.) Hills bordering the valley of the Brahmaputra south- 

 ward. 



8. a. intermedia, nobis. (J. A. S. XXIV, 277.) Probably from 

 Arakan. 



9. a. charltoni. (Eyton. Ann. Mag. M. H. 18-15, XVI, p. 235.) 

 Malayan p^insula : not uncommon about Pinang and Province Wel- 

 lesley. (Type of Tropncoperdix, nobis, passim ?) 



10. a. chloropus. (Tickell. J. A. S. XXVIII, 415, 453,) 

 Tenas,serim mountains. 



c. With large bare space in front of neck. 



11. a. ptjnctulata. (Hardw. III. lid. Zool.) Hab. ? 



12. a. crudigtjlaris. (Swinhoe, Ibis, 1864, p. 426.) Formosa. 

 Type of oreoperdix, Swinhoe. 



' N. B. The Perdix oculea, Tern. (Pig. et Gall. Ill, 408 ; Tetrao 

 ocellatus, Raffles, Tr. Lin. Soc. XIII, 332 ; Hardw. III. Ind. 

 Zool. ;) of Mergui province and Sumatra, is the type of my Caloper- 

 dix ; and P. thoracica, Tern. (Pig- et Gall. Ill, 335, P. and Arbori- 

 cola sphenurus, Gray,) is the type of Bambusicola, Gould, to which a 

 second species has been added by Mr. Swinhoe from Formosa, B. So- 

 norivox, Gould. (B. As. pt. XVI.) 



The Partridges of the Peura group arc best obtained from natives 

 of the country who understand netting them. Comparatively lew fall 



