92 THE GREEN-LEGGED WOOD PARTRIDGE. 



pairing season this may not be the case. The Karens did not 

 even know the bird ; but this is no proof of its rarity, for 

 these people pay no attention to the living products of their 

 forests. 



" The sexes are precisely similar in plumage and size ; the 

 flesh rather dry and tasteless." 



In our " Birds of Tenasserim," Mr. Davison noted that u this 

 species is most abundant in thin tree jungle, but is also found 

 in thick forest. It is usually met with in pairs, but sometimes 

 in small parties, gliding about on the ground amongst the dense 

 brushwood, and scratching among the dead leaves, hunting 

 for insects and seeds. Its note is a low soft double whistle,, 

 which is chiefly heard in the morning and evening. Without 

 dogs they are very hard to procure, as they will not rise, but 

 run only a short distance, and then squat close under some 

 cover : before a dog they rise at once, flying some distance 

 and then dropping to the ground, not perching as rufogularis 

 does. Like all the other Arboricolas, these come down about 

 midday or a little earlier to some forest streamlet to drink." 



There is nothing else on record about this species, nor is any- 

 thing, so far as I am aware, as yet known about its nidification. 



The following are dimensions, &c, of six males and four 

 females recorded in the flesh : — 



Males. — Length, 11-4 to 12*0 ; expanse, 19*6 to 21*25 ; tail 

 from vent, 2*9 to 3-5 ; wing, 6*05 to &6 ; tarsus, 17 to 179; 

 bill from gape, o 82 to 0.95 ; weight, 9 to 12 ozs. 



Females. — Length, io - 8 to ir6; expanse, 17-5 to 187 ; tail, 

 2*6 to 2"95 ; wing, 575 to &2 ; tarsus, 1*62 ; bill from gape, 0*8 to 

 0*9 ; weight, 8 to 10 ozs. 



Legs and feet pale green ; claws paler and yellower ; bill 

 greenish horny ; region of nostrils and base of lower mandi- 

 ble reddish horny ; cere dark greenish plumbeous ; orbital skin 

 dark brownish pink to livid rufous ; irides deep brown. 



The plumage of the sexes is alike. 



THE PLATE is unsatisfactory, because the colours are not 

 right. The whole upper parts should be a pure olive brown,, 

 barred with black, the crown only being immaculate. The 

 patch at the sides of the neck and on the sides should be a pure 

 pale ferruginous, not a bit -the pinky red of the plate, nor is there 

 any trace of this latter colour anywhere in the bird, although 

 the whole plumage is more or less tinged with it in the plate. 



Almost all these Arbor icola plates are disfigured by the 

 failure to seize the exact shades of colour that the birds exhibit. 

 In the present case, if the legs and feet were not in an impossible 

 position, and the tints had been slightly altered, the figure on 

 the right would have been really good. 



