94 THE MALAYAN WOOD PARTRIDGE. 



THE PLATE conveys a tolerable idea of the species, but here, 

 too, the tints have not been accurately caught ; the red of the 

 lower throat should be a deep chestnut, and the ground colour 

 of the back and upper parts a pale dull buff. 



I subjoin an accurate description of a fine specimen from 

 Johor : — 



The lores and forehead are covered with striped feathers, 

 yellowish white in the centres, olive brown at the sides, the 

 olive brown becoming almost black towards the tips of some 

 of the feathers. A long conspicuous superciliary stripe, con- 

 tinued downwards on either side of the back of the neck, white 

 or yellowish white, the feathers more or less broadly margined 

 on one or both webs with dark brown, becoming black towards 

 the terminal portion of the stripes ; the whole of the top and 

 back of the head and nape enclosed between these stripes pale 

 olive brown ; ear-coverts bright pale rufous buff ; from behind 

 the ear-coverts a more or less broken black band descends 

 on either side of the neck and meets in front at the base of the 

 throat ; the whole of the chin, cheeks and throat, included 

 within this band, white, each feather tipped with blackish 

 brown or black ; the black band is succeeded by a deep chestnut 

 crescentic shaped pectoral band, about an inch and a half deep 

 in front, commencing from near the end of the elongated super- 

 ciliary stripe ; the lower breast below the chestnut pectoral band 

 is pale buff, the feathers closely set with broad blackish bands, 

 which occupy the greater portion of the feather, and which, to- 

 wards the sides, are more or less freckled over with rufous buff ; 

 upper abdomen and sides ferruginous buff, paler towards the 

 centre, brighter on the sides, where the feathers exhibit broad 

 black bars, mostly on one web only ; middle of lower abdomen, 

 thighs, vent, and central shorter lower tail-coverts white ; lateral 

 and longer tail-coverts buffy with black bars. 



The entire back, rump, scapulars, upper tail-coverts, pale dull 

 buff, profusely freckled and mottled all over with fine zig-zag 

 lines, which vary from deep olive brown to almost black ; the 

 freckling is so dense that but little of the ground colour remains 

 visible ; the tertiaries and the greater portion of the coverts are 

 mottled very similarly to the back, as are also the exterior webs 

 of most of the secondaries, but these latter have a somewhat 

 more ferruginous tinge, and the coverts exhibit larger patches 

 of a pale yellowish buff, and again of unmottled dark brown ; 

 the primaries, the inner webs of the secondaries, and the earlier 

 greater coverts of the former, uniform, rather pale hair brown ; 

 the tail is hair brown, mottled and freckled with dull ferrugi- 

 nous and blackish brown. 



Axillaries and wing-lining, except in the neighbourhood of 

 the carpal joint, pure white ; in the neighbourhood of the carpal 

 joint, brown spotted or imperfectly barred with ferruginous red. 



