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feathers pale-shafted and pointed, but less elongated than in the other : 

 ear-coverts dull greyish ; and a very faint tinge of ferruginous on the 

 sides of the neck. Bill dusky ; and legs pale brown.' Bill to gape 1^ 

 in. ; the latter defended by strong vibrissa : closed wing 4 in. : tail the 

 same : tarse f in. 



Aeboeicola beunneopectus, Tickell, n. s. On a former occasion, J. A. S. 

 XVIII, 819, we distinguished three species of the Green or Hill Par- 

 tridges of Anglo-Indian sportsmen, — viz. A. toequeola (Perdix torqueola, 

 Valenciennes ; P. megapodia, Temminck ; v. P. olivacea, Gray) ; which 

 appears to be the only species found in the Simla and Masuri hills, and 

 in Sikim inhabits at a greater elevation than the next : — A. eufogulaeis, 

 nobis, common in Sikim, and which Capt. Tickell has now sent from the 

 Tenasserim mountains ; and A. ateogulaeis, nobis, which is common in 

 the mountains of Asam, Sylhet, if not also those of Arakan. We have 

 since seen many dozens of living examples of the last from Sylhet, and 

 remarked that there is no apparent sexual diversity, and but slight indi- 

 vidual variation ; and this we now suspect to be also the case with the 

 second species, the supposed females referred to which formerly We now 

 suspect were that sex of A. toequeola. Capt. Tickell now sends a speci- 

 men of a fourth, found together with A. eufogulaeis at an elevation of 

 from 3000 to 5000 ft. " They are tame and easily shot as they run along 

 the ground." In A. eufogtjlaeis, both sexes appear to have the chin 

 and throat deep ferruginous, the former speckled with black, the latter 

 with an inferior black border more or less developed : breast dark ashy, 

 tolerably pure, and passing to white on the middle of the belly : flanks 

 varied with ferruginous on the sides of the feathers, which have an 

 elongated medial white spot, less developed than in the males of A. toe- 

 queola : back plain, or with but the faintest possible indication of terminal 

 dusky margins to the feathers (which must be looked for to be observed 

 at all) : the scapularies with large black spots, and scarcely any trace of 

 white medial lines ; and the crown brown, often black-spotted, and passing 

 to ashy on the forehead. — A. atrogulaeis has a very broad white mous- 

 tachial streak ; and the throat black, passing into white below, the latter 

 ill denned and spotted with black, the spots gradually disappearing on 

 the pure ashy breast : no trace of ferruginous on the flanks, which have 

 small narrow white spots, often obsolete or nearly so : crown brown, more 

 or less black-spotted, and passing to ashy on the forehead ; and the back 

 conspicuously barred with black, two or three narrow transverse bands 

 upon each feather : scapularies with black spots more or less developed, 

 but with no white mesial streaks, and little trace of rufous or ferruginous. 



