GAME BIRDS OF INDIA AND ASIA. 1 23 



evergreen forests all through Tenasserim down to 

 Tavoy, and on the eastern slopes of the Pegu hills. 

 Outside Indian limits it has been obtained in Cochin 

 China. 



Charlton's Hill-Partridge. 



Tropicoperdix charltoni, Brit. Mus. Cat., Birds, Vol. 

 XXII, p. 221. 



In this species, which is found from Penang to Borneo, and is 

 suspected of occurring in Tenasserim, the legs are red, not green ; 

 otherwise it is not unlike the last, but has even finer pencilling 

 above regular black and bufE barring on the sides, and a plain 

 chestnut breast. 



There remain two very beautiful short-tailed 

 forest partridges, each of which claims a genus of 

 its own. 



The Chestnut Wood-Partridge. 



Caloperdix oculea. Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, 

 Vol. IV, p. 131. 



In this bird the tail, though short, is longer than 

 in the Arboricolas, the toes, and especially the 

 claws, are shorter, and the hinder toe bears a mere 

 rudiment of a claw. The sexes are alike in plum- 

 age, but the male has short spurs, which may be 

 one or two on each leg. 



The plumage is very characteristic, the general 

 colour being a rich chestnut, barred with black on 

 the flanks, where also white bars may be present ; 

 the back is black, pencilled with white above and 

 with chestnut lower down ; the wings are brown 

 with black spots, and the tail black. 



