THE FERRUGINOUS WOOD-PARTRIDGE. 329 
Genus CALOPERDIX, Bl 
684. CALOPERDIX OCULEA. 
THE FERRUGINOUS WOOD-PARTRIDGE. 
Perdix oculea, Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. Ind. p, 732. Tetrao ocellatus, Raffl. Tram. 
Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 322. Caloperdix oculea, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 310 ; Hume ^ 
Dav, S. F. vi. p. 449; Hume^ Marsh. Game Birds, ii. p. 101, pi. ] Hume, S. F. 
viii. p. 111. Caloperdix ocellata, Bl. B. Burm. p. 151. 
Description. — Male and female. The whole head^ neck^ breast and abdo- 
men cbestnnt^ darkest on the crown and palest on the throat ; a streak over 
the eye paler chestnut than the other parts ; tips of the ear-coverts black ; 
lower abdomen and vent ashy white ; base of the neck above^ the back^ 
scapulars,, sides of the breast and of the body blacky each feather with a 
subterminal white bar ; lower back and rump blacky each feather with a 
central oval spot of chestnut ; upper tail-coverts blacky each feather with an 
irregular V-shaped mark of chestnut ; flanks rich chestnut, with oval black 
drops ; thighs plain chestnut ; under tail-coverts mixed chestnut and black, 
the longer ones black tipped with fulvous-white j tail brownish black, the 
two centre pairs of feathers irregularly marked with zigzag lines of pale 
fulvous ; primaries plain brown, all but the first three tipped with fulvous ; 
secondaries brown, edged on the outer web with fulvous, the edging 
increasing in extent till it occupies the whole of the web on the inner 
secondaries ; tertiaries and coverts liver-brown, each feather with a black 
drop near the tip, and the coverts narrowly edged with rufous ; under wing- 
coverts brown. 
Legs and feet pale dirty green ; bill black ; irides deep brown. {Da- 
vison.) 
Length 11 inches, tail 2*5, wing 5*8, tarsus 1'8, bill from gape 1. The 
female appears to be of the same size. 
The Ferruginous Wood-Partridge has been met with in Tenasserim south 
of Mergui. At Malewoon and Bankasoon it appears to be tolerably 
abundant ; for my men procured one specimen, which they were not likely 
to have done had the bird been rare. 
It is found throughout the Malay peninsula and Sumatra, and probably 
also in Borneo. 
Nothing is known of this species. The natives appear to snare them 
easily ; but they seem difficult to shoot. 
