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Ortygornis gularis, Temminck. 



Vernacular Names— [Kyah, Kair, Kaijah, Bengal, &c. j Bun-teetur j Jungli 

 teetur (Hindustani) ; Koi, Koera, Assam ; Bhil-titar, Cachar ; ] 



HE range of the Swamp Partridge is as yet ill defined, 

 and its distribution very local and apparently capri- 

 cious. It occurs here and there throughout the 

 Terai region which skirts the southern bases of the 

 Himalayas from Pilibhi't to Sadiya, our eastern- 

 most station in Assam. It occurs in places along 

 the banks of the Gogra, and along the northern bank 

 of the Ganges (crossing, in some parts of the Monghyr, Bhagul- 

 pur and Rajmehal districts, to the southern bank also) from 

 near Benares to Bhaulia. It is found in the Jessore Sunder- 

 bans, in Dacca, Dinagepore, Rungpore and Maldah, and along the 

 Megna and Brahmaputra and the lower courses of rivers running 

 into these, in Tipperah, Sylhet, Cachar, Goalpara and every other 

 of the Assam valley districts, north and south of the Brahma- 

 putra, right away to Sadiya. It does sometimes ascend the hills, 

 for the late Captain Beavan obtained it at Chera Punji at an 

 elevation of 4,000 feet. Mr. Damant* writes that he has shot it 

 at the foot of the Garo Hills, but that it is not found in the Naga 

 Hills or in Manipur. 



It does not occur, so far as is known, anywhere in British 

 Burma or anywhere outside our limits. 



HIGH GRASS jungle (often mingled with cane brakes and thorny 

 thickets), in the neighbourhood of large swamps or on or near 

 the banks of the larger rivers and their tributaries, seem to be 

 almost exclusively the habitats of this fine species, of which 

 personally I have seen but little. 



* Mr. Damant says : — "I have shot this species in the districts of Dinagepore, 

 Rungpore, Maldah, Sylhet, Cachai-, and the Garo Hills It is not found in Mani- 

 pur, nor in the Naga Hills, and, to the best of my belief, it is never found in any 

 hills I have shot it in the Garo Hills, but only in low ground at the foot of the 

 hills, and never in the hills themselves. It is common on the Brahmaputra dims, 

 and it breeds in all the districts I have mentioned above." 



