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patch of feathers, each having an oval white mark set off with black, and 

 other feathers thus marked across the nape. Bill plumbeous; and legs 

 plumbeous-brown. "Female. Irides sepia." Length 6 in., of wing 2f 

 in., and tail 2| in.; the plumage extremely copious over the rump; bill to 

 gape 1 in. ; and tarse 1 in. 



Tropicoperdix (nobis) chloropus, Tickell, n. s. A third species of this 

 group, which is founded on Perdix personata, Horsfield, of Java, and 

 P. Charltoni, Eyton, of Penang and Province Wellesley, which latter the 

 present bird exactly resembles in size and structure. The form comes near 

 to Arboricola, but the straight claws are much less developed, and there is 

 a characteristic difference of plumage. The present species differs from 

 Tr. Charltoni, in having the interscapularies unmottled olive-brown, 

 crossed with numerous black rays on each feather ; the supercilium is more 

 delicately pencilled, and the ear-coverts are not ferruginous, but white with 

 black spots like the throat, and below the throat there is a broad ferruginous 

 band also with round black spots ; breast similar to the back, olive-brown 

 with numerous blackish cross-rays, below which the under-parts are ferru- 

 ginous, paling at the vent and interior of thighs : the flanks have no well 

 defined broad black bands, as in T. Charltoni, but are prettily mottled 

 with dusky in a manner difficult to describe ; and the same remark applies 

 to the wing-coverts : tail freckled and marked with zig-zag dusky bands. 

 Bill wax-yellow, crimson towards gape in both mandibles ; and the legs 

 yellowish-green. Length of wing 6 in., of tail 3 in., of bill to gape 1 in,, 

 and of tarse If in. " trides brown." 



Podica personata, G. R. Gray. Two specimens, male and female : 

 the former having a black chin and throat ; ending in a point half-way down 

 the neck, and narrowly margined throughout with white which commences 

 behind the eyes ; the forehead also black, continued into a supercilium : 

 the latter having the chin and throat white, bordered throughout with black 

 indicating the periphery of the black patch of the male, and beyond this 

 the same external white border ; supercilia black as in the male, but not 

 the forehead. In both, and in a third specimen formerly sent by the late 

 Major Berdmore, there is a triangular naked space at base of the upper man- 

 dible, the base of which is even with the forehead, and the adjacent feathers 

 behind it being white. Length of male If ft., of wing 10 in., and tail 5 in. ; 

 beak to forehead 2 in., tarse If in., and middle toe and claw 3 in. "Irides 

 of male sepia; of female pale yellow." The difference, however, has 

 more the appearance of summer snd winter plumage, than of sexual 

 diversity. 



Various Himalayan (and, more especially, S. E. Himalayan) species form 

 part of this collection ; of which may be enumerated, as shewing the geogra- 



