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Arboricola rufogularis, Bhjth.
Vernacular Name^.-[Kolmmbui-p],o (JLepcha)! Lakom (Emilia), smim;
lokhu, Daphla Ihlh; Peura, Kumaun ; ]
ROM the western boundaries of Kumaun, through
Nepal, Sikhim and Bhutan to the Daphla Hills, the
Rufous-throated Hill Partridge occurs in suitable
localities throughout the lower outer ranges of the
Himalayas. It may occur, but of this I am not
certain, further west than Kumaun. Eastwards,
again, we are quite ignorant how far it extends
beyond the Daphla Hills, which lie north of the Darrang district.
Dr. Jerdon says he got it on the Khasi Hills, but this has not
been confirmed by either Godwin-Austen or my collectors ; and
birds from Cachar and the Naga Hills which Austen originally
referred to this species in his earlier papers have been later
assigned by him to other species, intermedins and torqucohts.
From the Himalayas, southwards, we have, therefore, no certainty
of its occurrence until, in the higher ranges of Tenasscrim, we
again meet with a slightly modified race of it,* which is
especially plentiful in the neighbourhood of Mooleyit.
Very probably this Tenasscrim race extends into Independent
Burma and Siam, but at present we have no knowledge of its
occurrence anywhere beyond British limits.
T H I S SPECIES has a much lower range than the preceding I
have shot it quite at the base of the hills, and I have never seen
it at an elevation exceeding 6,000 feet. No doubt I have seen
much less of it than of the Common Hill Partridge but the
experience of others confirms my own.
Thus Beavan says :—
"This species is much more abundant than A. torqueolus in
bikhim, and near Darjeeling inhabits a lower zone than the