11 Hi INftHTOWL 



Galloperdix spadiceus, Gmelin. 



Vernacular Names.— [Chota Jungl'i Murghi (Muhammadans) Central Piovinces, 

 Belgaum, &>c.j Chakatri, Chakotre, Kokatri (Mahratti) Sahyddri Range; 

 Kustoor (Mahratti) Decern ; Sarava koli, (Tamil) ; Yerra-kodi, Jitta-kodi, 

 (Telugu) j Ispur-koli, (anglicised Shikaris of) Nilgiris.] 



AM wholly unable at present to define with any degree 

 of accuracy the respective ranges of this and the 

 Painted Spur-Fowl. 



In the first place, we have an apparently isolated 

 colony residing in the Tarai of the central section 

 of the Himalayas, extending from the Gorakhpur 

 Tarai, where I have myself shot it in former years, 

 to, at any rate, the borders of the Kheyri or Lakhimpur and 

 Shahjahanpur districts.* 



This colony does not extend southwards to any distance 

 from the Tarai I believe ; nor does it, I conclude, get further 

 east than Gorakhpur, since Mr. Hodgson, who obtained 

 all the birds of the Tarai south of Khatamandoo {i.e., north of 

 the Chumparun and Tirhoot districts,) never obtained it ; 

 neither have I heard of it as far west as Pilibhit. 



Setting aside this isolated colony, this species occurs no- 

 where else, I believe, north of a line running across India, 

 which may be roughly indicated as commencing in the 

 Arvalis north-east of Abu, not far from Beaur, and running thence 

 by Saugor and the Vindhyas near Jubbulpore along the Ky- 

 more range to the Rajmehal Hills. 



Even south cf this line the distribution is most irregular, 

 and there are large tracts perfectly suitable in their character 

 (such as the Vindhyas east of Chota Oodeypore and west of 

 Saugor) in regard to which I have no record of its occurrence. 



Kharakpur and the Rajmehal Hills I give on Jerdon's 

 authority. Baldwin shot it on the Katra Pass, south of Mirza- 

 pur, and Thomson says : " First observed on the Kymore range 

 80 miles south of Mirzapur ; found in the valley of the Sone 

 River ; common on the Vindhyas near Jubbulpore and Mandla ; 

 abundant in suitable localities on the Maikal or Amarkantak 



* Mr. Vernon has just sent me two specimens shot at Loharna on the Kathney 

 River, 25 miles W.-N.-W. of Lakhimpur. 



