GAME BIRDS OF INDIA AND ASIA. II5 



separated from the black throat by a white band. 

 The skin surrounding the eye is scarlet. 



In the hen the crown is brown with black streaks, 

 the sides of the head and the throat are chestnut 

 with black spots ; the breast is brownish, and has 

 a rusty band above it ; and the white spots on the 

 flanks tend to run up to the breast, and are larger. 

 However, old hens lose the breast spots, and 

 yoiuig cocks possess them. Hens and young 

 cocks have the skin round the face purplish-red. 

 In all, the bill is black and the legs fiesh-grey. 



This partridge is a little under a foot long, with a tail 

 of only three inches, and a shank nearly two. The 

 -wing is six inches long. Males run larger than females. 



The common hill-partridge is found at moder- 

 ate elevations along the Himalayas from Chamba 

 to east of Sikkim, and also in the Naga hills and 

 in those north of Manipur. It ranges from 5,000 

 to 14,000 feet, but its common range does not go 

 above '9,000. South of Manipur it is replaced by 

 a race (A. hatemani) with the chestnut and black 

 band from the ear-coverts extending all down the 

 sides of the neck instead of half-way. 



Blyth's Hill-Partridge. 



Arhoricola rufigularis. Fauna Brit. Ind., 

 Birds, Vol. IV, p. 126. 



Native names : — In Kumaun and among 

 the Lepchas this species seems to have 

 the same names as the last ; in the Daphla 

 hills it is called Pokhu. 



This species, like those which follow, appears to 

 be a little smaller than the last. 



