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It is found in the Arrakan hills and North Pegu, 

 ■extending to North Cachar and the Naga hills, 

 and to Eastern Manipur, where it is common. 

 The eggs were taken in Manipur in May ; they 

 were pure white, and six in number. 



The White-cheeked or Black-throated Hill- 

 Partridge. 



Arhoricola atrigularis, Fauna Brit. Ind., 

 Birds, Vol. IV, p. 127. 



Native names : — Peura in Sj'lhet ; Duboy, 

 Dubore, Assamese ; San-batai, in Chitta- 

 gong. 



In this species the crown is brown, running into 

 grey in front and chestnut behind, the feathers 

 marked with black ; a double eyebrow, of grey 

 above black, is present, and the eye is surrounded 

 by a black patch ; the cheeks are white, running 

 into buff behind ; the throat is black, becoming 

 edged below first with white and then with grey, 

 until it merges into the grey breast ; the grey 

 flanks have no chestnut borders to the feathers 

 in this bird. 



The bill is black, and the legs orange or lobster- 

 red ; and the reddish skin of the face shows through 

 the feathers. 



The White-cheeked Hill-Partridge extends from 

 Assam south of the Brahmaputra into the Naga, 

 Khasi, and Garo hills, Cachar, Sylhet, Tipperah, 

 and Chittagong. The eggs have been taken in 

 Sylhet on hillocks, at the foot of trees in dark and 

 gloomy places ; as many as four occurring in a 



