84 THE BHUTAN HILL PARTRIDGE. 



The following is a full description of the type : — 

 Lores, forehead, sinciput a rich deep brownish chestnut red 

 a faint, very narrow yellowish streak under the anterior portion 

 . of the lores ; crown, occiput and nape a rich deep rufescent 

 olive brown ; a broad grey supercilium, continued backwards 

 over the ear-coverts and partly round the nape ; chin, throat, 

 cheeks, ear-coverts, sides of neck and the basal portion of the 

 back of the neck, except exactly in the centre, a very rich 

 bright ferruginous, spotted everywhere, except on the chin and 

 throat, with velvet black, a band of which clearly defines the 

 ferruginous across the base of the throat. Immediately above 

 this black band,, in the centre of the base of the neck in front, 

 is a conspicuous pure white patch, about 0*8 long and C35 to 0*4 

 deep. Below the black band, the breast and sides of the breast 

 are rich slightly ferruginous maroon. I should mention that 

 on either side of the upper portion of the throat a very narrow 

 mandibular white stripe, about o*6 long, runs down from the 

 base of the lower mandible, and that above this a black line, 

 beginning under the posterior portion of the lores, runs under 

 the eye ; the abdomen and rest of lower parts pale slatey grey, 

 rather sullied, and in some lights slightly brownish, and 

 many of the feathers with a small irregular central white spot 

 near the tip ; the flank feathers, (where the white spots are 

 largest and most conspicuous), tinged or margined with rusty or 

 ferruginous chestnut ; the vent and lower tail-coverts strongly 

 tinged with dull olive, the coverts, moreover, having the white 

 spot nearer the tips and more or less expanded into a bar, 

 and being here and there a little tinged with rusty ; wing 

 lining about the carpal joint a rich hair brown ; the rest a pale 

 grey brown (much the colour of the lower surface of the quills), 

 a little tipped with white. 



Upper back and interscapulary region plain olive, a little 

 slatey in some lights towards the bases of the feathers ; some 

 of the feathers very narrowly and inconspicuously fringed with 

 black ; lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts a rather 

 browner and brighter olive, some of the feathers very narrowly 

 fringed with black, and most of them with conspicuous, hastate, 

 subterminal, velvet black spots ; coverts and scapulars and 

 tips of tertiaries similar (the black spot varying in shape from 

 a sort of lunule on the scapulars to a linear lanceolate dash on 

 some of the coverts), but the feathers more or less tinged 

 towards the margins with deep ferruginous ; the primaries plain 

 uniform hair brown ; secondaries similar, but freckled and 

 mottled, more or less, on the outer webs and at the tips with 

 ferruginous. 



