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male has the top of the head bright chestnut, the eye stripes, sides of the face, chin, 
and throat black, more or less margined with white, and there is a broad white 
band across the front of the crop. In the female the top of the head is brown 
marked with black, and the sides of the head are rufous spotted with black, the 
white band being absent. 
The members of the three genera now to be considered are 
Wood Partridges. cu ^ ar j n } iav i n g the nail of the first toe rudimentary. In the 
ferruginous wood-partridges ( Caloperdix ) the legs of the male are provided with 
one or more pairs of spurs. The general colour of the head, neck, and under-parts 
is bright rust-red, the upper-back black and white, the lower-parts black with rusty 
EED-CEESTED WOOD-PAETRIDGES nat. size). 
red markings, and the wings olive-brown, spotted with black. The three species 
respectively inhabit the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Java and Borneo. The 
red-crested wood-partridge (Rollulus roulroul), figured in the woodcut, is an 
inhabitant of Tenasserim and the Malay Peninsula and Islands. In both sexes there 
is a tult of long hair-like bristles on the middle of the forehead, and the claw on the 
first toe is rudimentary. The male has also a long, fan-shaped maroon crest of hairy 
feathers, and the rest of the head and neck black with a white band between the 
eyes, the wings being maroon glossed with purplish blue, the remainder of the 
upper-parts rich green with steely blue reflections, the under-parts black glossed 
with blue, and the base of the bill, naked skin round the eye, as well as the legs 
and feet, scarlet. In the female the head is blackish grey, the wings chestnut, and 
the rest of the plumage bright grass-green, shading into greyish green on the 
imder-parts. This green colour is an unusual tint among game-birds, found else- 
