THE MALAYAN WOOD PARTRIDGE. 



95 



Many ornithologists separate the Green-legged and 

 Malayan Wood Partridges from the Hill Partridges in a distinct 

 genus P eloper dix, but accepting these as Arborieo/as, and uniting 

 also Oreoperdix of Swinhoe, which seems to be only an Arbori- 

 cola, in which the bareness of the throat, so conspicuous in 

 several of our species (e.g., brunneopectus^) is exaggerated, only 

 three or four other species appear to be, as yet, known ; viz. y A. 

 javanica, from Java and Sumatra, A. per sonata from Java, and 

 A. crudigirfaris from Formosa. Besides this, there is an A. gin- 

 gica, which, as described by Mr. Blyth (Ibis, 1870, 174), is some- 

 thing of the type of A. mandellii, supposed to come from the 

 Coromandel Coast, but which there are reasons for believing to 

 have been brought from the Philippines. 



The genus is essentially Indo-Malayan, and doubtless nu- 

 merous species remain to be discovered in Siam, the Shan 

 States, Independent Burma, and probably Assam. 



The Afboricolas, males as well as females, have no spurs ; the 

 Bamboo Partridges (Bambusicolas) differ, amongst other things, 

 in that the males are spurred, and, in the case of our Indian 

 species, have very sharp spurs. 



