THE BUOWN-BEEASTED HILL-PA RTBIDGE. 325 
Genus ARBORICOLA, Hodgs. 
680. ARBORICOLA BRUNNEIPECTUS. 
THE BBOWN-BREASTED HILL-PARTRIDGE. 
Arboricola brunneopectus, Tick., Bl. J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 276 ; Bl B, Burm. p. 150 ; 
Hume 8f Dav. S. F, vi. p. 443 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. Ill ; Hume Sj- Marsh. Ga7ne 
Birds, ii. p. 87, pi. ; Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 195 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 236. Arboro- 
phila brunneipectus, Hume, aS. i^. ii. p. 449, iii. p. 174; Wald. Ibis, 1875, 
p. 459. 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead and a broad supercilium ex- 
tending to the nape fawn-colour ; lores^ a line above and below the eye^ 
meeting behind and passing over the ear-coverts (expanding and joining 
the sides of the neck) the sides of the neck and the whole fore neck black ; 
chin^ throaty cheeks and ear-coverts fawn-colour; crown and nape olive- 
brown, each feather tipped with blacky the spots increasing in size till the 
hind part of the head is quite black ; the fawn-coloured supercilia join 
behind this black patch ; back and shorter scapulars olive-brown barred 
with black ; rump olive-brown with only a few black marks^ the feathers 
tipped darker and barred somewhat lighter; upper tail-coverts the same 
but with no black spots ; tail olive-brown mottled with black ; primaries 
brown mottled with rufous at the tips ; secondaries brown edged with pale 
chestnut ; tertiaries and longer scapu.lars olive-brown tipped with chest- 
nut^ each feather with a large_, blacky oval patch near the tip ; coverts 
rufous olive-brown marked with black in places ; breast tawny brown ; 
centre of the abdomen and vent whitish ; sides of the abdomen and sides 
of the body tawny brown_, each feather with a large^ round_, white spot and 
tipped black ; under tail-coverts tawny brown barred with black. 
Bill black ; eyelids^ patch behind the eye and skin of the throat red ; 
iris dark brown ; legs orange or lake-red ; claws orange-colour. 
Length 11*2 inches^ tail 2'4, wing 5*3^ tarsus 1*7^ bill from gape I. 
The female is rather smaller. 
The Brown-breasted Hill-Partridge is met with in the evergreen forests 
on the eastern spurs of the Pegu hills ; and Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay pro- 
cured it on the hill-ranges east of Tonghoo. In Tenasserim it is found as 
far south as Tavoy. It is not known to occur outside the limits of British 
Burm ah. 
This bird and the next are equally common in densely wooded ravines 
and nullahs; but I never met with the two species together. They skulk 
in the dense undergrowth^ and would seldom be seen were it not that they 
frequently come down to the beds of the streams to drink and bathe. It 
is quite impossible to have any sport with them^ as they seldom rise_, but^ 
