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BIEDS OF BRITISH BUBMAH. 
when disturbed^ usually run quietly away. I have never heard them utter 
any note ; but they are said to have a low soft whistle. They are stated to 
live in small coveys ; but I have never seen more than four birds together_, 
and frequently only two. 
681. AEBORICOLA CHLOROPUS. 
THE GBEEN-LEGGED HILL-PARTBIDGE. 
Tropicoperdix chloropus, Tick., Bl. J. A. S. B. xxviii. p. 415. Arboricola 
chloropus, Tick. J. A. S. B. xxviii. p. 453; Bl B. Burm. p. 150; Jffume 8r 
Dav. S. F. vi. p. 444 ; Hume, 8. F, viii. p. Ill ; Hume 8f Marsh. Game Birds, ii. 
p. 91, pi. ; Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 195 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 236. Arborophila 
chloropus, Hume, S. F. ii. po 449. Peloperdix chloropus, Hume, S. F. iii. 
p. 176. 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead and supercilia^ widening pos- 
teriorly and meeting on the nape^ white_, each feather edged with blackish ; 
chin_, throat and sides of the head white_, each feather tipped with black ; 
the feathers at the base of the throat and end of the ear-coverts tinged with 
rufous ; a collar round the neck_, wide in front and narrow behind the 
nape^ ferruginous^ each feather tipped black ; crown and nape rich brown ; 
the back^ scapulars^ tertiaries_, lesser wing-coverts^ rump^ upper tail-coverts 
and the breast rich brown tinged with fulvous_, irregularly and closely 
barred with blackish ; primaries dark brown^ freckled with fulvous on the 
outer webs ; greater coverts and secondaries brown^ freckled and marked 
with fulvous and pale rufous ; tail ruf ous-brown_, with freckles and broken 
bars of black ; upper abdomen ferruginous ; lower abdomen^ vent and 
under tail-coverts buffy white ; sides of the body pale ferruginous, with 
bold wavy bars of black ; under wing-coverts chiefly pure white. 
Iris dark hazel-brown ; bill dusky red at base_, the remainder greenish ; 
mouth flesh- colour ; eyelids and orbital skin purplish ; legs greenish ; 
claws yellow. 
Length 11 -5 inches, tail 3, wing 6, tarsus \'7 , bill from gape '9. The 
female is rather smaller. 
The Green-legged Hill-Partridge occurs in the evergreen forests of the 
eastern slopes of the Pegu hills; also in Tenasserim from the extreme 
north down to Tavoy, and probably further south still. 
Dr. Tiraud records it from Cochin China, the only locality out of 
British Burmah where it is as yet known to occur. 
I found this Partridge on the Pegu hills only in the densest and greenest 
vegetation. Mr. Davison notes that in Tenasserim it is met with in thin 
tree-jungle. Its habits are precisely similar to those of the last. 
