124 GAME BIRDS OF INDIA AND ASIA. 



The bill is black, the eyes dark, and the legs 

 dull-green. The length is just under eleven inches, 

 the wing being nearly six, and the tail nearly three ; 

 the shank is nearly two inches long. 



This is a forest bird, very little known, and ap- 

 parently one which Europeans have never even 

 seen in the wild state. It is found in the Malay 

 Peninsula, and extends into the southernmost part 

 of Tenasserim, where it inhabits dense jungle about 

 Bankasoon. A sort of local variety of the species 

 inhabits Sumatra. 



I have ventured to call this bird the " Chest- 

 nut " Partridge, as "Ferruginous," the epithet 

 usually imposed on it, is a rare and clumsy word. 



The Red-crested or Rooloo Paurtridge. 



Rollulus roulroul, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, 

 Vol. IV, p. III. 



This lovely bird very properly occupies a genus 

 all to itself. It has a very short tail and rather 

 long legs, with feet of the ordinary size, and the 

 claw of the hind toe rudimentary or altogether 

 absent. A tuft of long hair-like feathers is fomid 

 on the forehead in both sexes, which otherwise 

 differ widely, although neither has spurs. 



The male, besides the tuft of bristles, has a full 

 and large crest of loose-textured feathers on the 

 head, which is of a dark-red colour. The general 

 body-plumage is steel-blue with a rich satiny gloss, 

 changing in some lights to green ; the wings are 

 brown, and there is a white band across the fore- 

 head. 



