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The discovery process of Taiwan Hill-partridge ( Arborophila crudigularis )

---- The following by Robert Swinhoe ----
Tamsuy, Formosa, April 30th 1864.
About the middle of the month, four Partridges were brought to me from the interior mountains, alive, consisting of three males and one female. They uttered a chuckle very like that of the Guinea-hen (Numidu). I tried my best to induce them to live ; but they knocked themselves about, and one after the other
succumbed.
Besides their peculiar red unspurred legs, thick
black bill, and very short tail, the most striking peculiarity was in their all having an ugly raw-looking red patch on the throat. I thought it curious that aEl the birds should be so injured, if the peculiarity arose from an injury; but, on examining them closely, I found that the bare throat was natural. I have been puzzling myself as to what genus to assign them, but I know of no group of Partridges to which they can be well referred.
They are not Arboricoh, for they are of a different type, and, from their straight claws, certainly non-perching birds. They approach nearest the genus Cuccabis ; but from these they differ in the unspurred leg, the short tail, and the thick bill. Therefore, though loth to multiply genera, I see no hope of avoiding it in this case ;
and, from their being denizens of the interior mountains, I propose to create for them the genus which I will proceed to define. OREOPERDIn.X g,en .
OREOPERDCIXRU DIGULARIS, n. sp.






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