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Francolinus vulgaris, Stephens. 



Vernacular Names.-- [Kala titur, passim ; Kais-titar (female), Nepal; Kal-tittar 

 (Panjabi) ; Tetra, Native Garhwdl ; Vrembi, Manipur ; Taroo, Afghanistan .] 



F, starting from the estuary of the Hab River, which 

 divides Sind from Beluchistan, we follow the Sind 

 coast line to Cutch ; then hugging the southern coast of 

 this latter,* cross to the mainland between the greater 

 and lesser Runns to Deesa,*f* and so on skirting the 

 northern bases of Abu and the Arvalis about as far 

 as the Deysuri Pass ; thence draw an imaginary line to 

 Gwalior, and thence another to the Chilka Lake, we shall have 

 traced, with a sufficient approximation to accuracy, the Southern 

 limits of the Black and Northern of the Painted Partridge. 



North-eastward of the terminus of this line, the Black 

 Partridge extends through Cuttack and Midnapore to Eastern 

 Bengal, Maldah, Dinagepore, Rungpore, Dacca, Tipperah, &c, 

 to Sylhet, Cachar, Manipur, the Garo and Khasia Hills, the 

 Bhutan Duars and the valley and river chars of Assam, at any 

 rate as far as the eastern boundary of the Darrang district. 



Col. Graham says : " There is a fair sprinkling of this bird all 

 over the Darrang district ; but further east in Lakhimpur it 

 dies out, possibly owing to the want of grass plains with short 

 grass on them suitable to its habits." 



It does not seem to extend to the Naga HillsJ ; nor is it met 

 with, Messrs. Fasson and Martin inform me, in Chittagong ; and 



* Mr. W. Blanford says — J. A. S. B., 1867, p. 200 — that he has seen the Painted 

 Partridge in Cutch. I can only say that I have received more than a dozen specimens 

 of the Black Partridge from various paits of Cutch, but not one of the painted. 



+ The areas of distribution of the Black and Painted Partridges are possibly a little 

 interlaced in this part. South-west from Jalor, in Jodhpore, the Black is abundant. 

 I have seen specimens shot within two miles of Deesa. Dr. Eddowes shot one only 

 six miles north-west ofErinpura, in a Marwar village. On the other hand, about the 

 base of Abu and at Sirohi and Erinpura itself, it is the Painted Partridge alone that I 

 have seen ; and it is this species alone that is met with throughout the skirts of the 

 Arvalis, on their northern as well as their southern faces, as far up as the Deysuri 

 Pass from Godwar (of Marwar) into Oodeypore. 



t Mr. G. H. Damant writes: "The Black Partridge is common in Maldah, 

 Dinagepore, Rungpore, at the bases of the Garo hills, in Goalpara and Manipur, and 



