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to distinguish it from any other species, the Spur-
fowl, which also have longish tails, showing some
bare skin about the eye.
The Bamboo Partridge affects forest and high
grass, and ranges through a considerable portion
of. the eastern hill tracts, from the Assam hills
south of the Brahmaputra, through Manipur, to
the Kachyeng hills between Upper Burma and
Yunnan. It is shy and has a loud harsh call.
Although the time—May and June—of breeding
appears to be known, the eggs are as yet desiderata.
Chinese Bamboo Partridge.
Bambusicola tkoracica, Brit. Mus. Cat., Birds, Vol. XXII,
p. 258.
This species, confined to South China, is mottled above with
brown, chestnut, and buff; the face, throat and tail are chestnut;
the eyebrows and chest grey, and the rest of the under-parts
buff spotted with black at the sides.
Formosan Bamboo Partridge.
Bambusicola sonoyivox, Brit. Mus. Cat., Birds, Vol.
XXII, p. 258.
This, the Formosan representative of the last species, differs
by having the sides of the face grey as well as the eyebrows, and
being darker generally. Its eggs are light brown in colour.
The various Hill-Partridges (Arboricola) form
an easily recognizable group of short-tailed birds
with rather long spurless shanks, and particularly
long, nearly-straight claws. The sexes are usually
alike, and'they inhabit hill forests, keeping very
close to cover, and occasionally perching. They
are seldom if ever seen, and little is known about
their breeding, except that they lay half-a-dozen
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