90 BAMBUSICOLA. 



streaked black. Neck olive. Above brown, banded black, minutely speckled. 

 Breast red, tipped black. Throat smoky brown. Tail brown, mottled rufous. 

 India. Pour to seven eggs (1-67 x 1-28), pale brown. (J. 814. B. 1349. 0. 45. 

 O.G. i. 206. H. & M. i. 247.) 



48. Galloperdix lunulatus. The Painted Spur-Fowl. 

 Lunulatus, lunUla, m, f. = a little moon, an ornament worn by women. 

 Askot, Orissa; Hootkah, Chanda; Kul-koli (Tamil); Jitta-kodi (Telugu). 



^ 12" to 13J"; 9 to 10 oz. 2 12" to 12 J"; 8 to 9 oz. Legs horny brown. 

 Bill blackish. Space in front of eye feathered. — Male : Head and neck black, 

 with white streaks and spots. Above chestnut, with white spots, black edged. 

 Breast bufif, with black triangular marks. Tail black. — Female : Crown black, 

 with chestnut shaft stripes. Above dull olive-brown, with dusky margins. Nape 

 chestnut. Pale ruff and moustache. Below brown, with marginal spots or bands. 

 — Young have the female plumage, with tertiaries and tail chestnut, banded black. 

 Young females partly spotted black. India (restricted). Five eggs (1-62 x 1-11), 

 pale brown. (B. 1350. 0. 46. O.G. i. 208. H. & M. i. 255.) 



49. Galloperdix blcalcaratus. The Ceylon Spur-Fowl. 



Haban-kukula, Ceylon. 



<? 12J" to 14^"; 11 to 13 oz. $ 11" to 11^"; 7 to 10 oz. Legs pale red. 

 Bill pale red. Orbital skin red. — Male: Crown, neck, mantle, and sides black, 

 with white shaft streaks. Chin and throat white. Chest black, with white 

 patches. Below white, edged black. Back chestnut. Tail black. Generally 

 four and sometimes six spurs. Wing-coverts chestnut, spotted white, edged 

 black. — Female: Chin and throat white. Plumage chestnut, mottled black. 

 Seldom devoid of spurs, and often have two or three. Ceylon. Four to six eggs 

 (1-42 X M2), pale buff. (B. 1351. 0. 47. O.G. i. 210. H. & M. i. 262.) 



Genus BAMBUSICOLA. 



Tail graduated, of fourteen feathers. Males, and sometimes females, have spurs. 

 Sexes similar. A connecting link between Pheasants and Partridges. 



50. Bambusicola fytchii. The iNDO-CHiNEaE or Western Bamboo Pheasant. 



Vengte (Kuki). 



3' 14"; 10 to 14 oz. ? 12|" to 13J"; 9 to 12 oz. Legs plumbeous. Bill 

 brown. Eyebrow stripes, sides of head and throat buff. Black band from behind 

 the eye down side of neck. Plumage above brown. Upper back chestnut, 

 mottled white. Chest brown, marked chestnut and white. Side- and flank- 

 feathers have velvet-black heart-shaped spots. Lower back and rump olive-brown, 

 irregularly barred. Tail rufous, conspicuously banded. N.E. Bengal, Assam, 

 and N. Burma. Eggs (1-45 x Ml), pale rufous. (B. 1352. 0. 44. O.G. i. 

 202. H. & M. ii. 97.) 



Also B. thoradca. The Chinese B. P. J 11-8". 911". With eyebrow stripes and chest grey. 



B. sonorivox. The Formosan B.P. (J 9-6". 9 9". With chin and throat chestnut, and 

 sides of face dark grey. Seven to twelve eggs (1-38 x 1-0), cream colour. 



Also the genus Ptilopachys. With tail of fourteen feathers. Naked space behind eye. No 

 spurs. Sexes similar. One species, viz. — 



P./uscus. The African Stone P. 6 1V'. 9 10". With sides of head and throat brown, 

 edged white. Above brown, finely mottled white. Mantle and chest sienna, with dark shaft 

 stripes. Breast buflf. Belly brown. Sides and flanks chestnut, irregularly barred white. Eggs 

 yellowish white, like miniature eggs of the Golden Pheasant, C. pictus. (O.G. i. 202.) 



