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Judging from what my coiTespondents write, their nebts appear 

 to be the same as those of the rest of the family, a mere heap of 

 leaves in bush jungle or forest, or, sometimes, in bamboo jungle. 

 The number of eggs laid is probably about C to 8, sometimes less, 

 but seldom more, and they are similar to those of horsfieldi, but 

 would appear to average smaller. Eggs I owe to Messrs. Hopwood, 

 Wickham and Mackenzie, range in length from 4o'6 mm. to 47-7 

 mm. and in breadth from 33-6 mm. to 36'8 mm., whilst they 

 average 45-5 mm. by 35-8 mm. The few I have seen have all 

 been of a pale buff or cream colour, but doubtless they vary in depth 

 of tint much as do all Kalij Pheasants' eggs. ' 



Habits. — -Williams' Kalij Pheasant seems to Ije a bird of moderate 

 levels, never descending to the Plains except as a casual wanderer 

 down to the smallest trees, and seldom being found above 4,000 

 feet, though in some isolated peaks such as ]\Iount Victoria, it has 

 been shot as high up as 6,000 feet. 



There is practically nothing on record as to its habits, but what 

 little there is shews it to be the same shy, skulking bird as the rest 

 of the genus, using its feet always in preference to its wings, and 

 almost impossible to flush without the use of dogs. 



Its plumage of grey makes it quite as difficult to see in the semi- 

 shadow land of the places it haunts, as is the more sombre black 

 plumage of the Black-breasted Kalij in the deeper shadows of the 

 ever green forests found in the wetter valleys below. Col. Haring- 

 ton informed lue that he had never come across this pheasa^it in the 

 hot dry zone in the South of the tract between the Irrawaddy and the 

 other rivers on the West, He also told me that he believed it to be a 

 verj^ rare bird throughout the Pakkoku District, which was too hot, 

 too low and too dry for it, and probably it would not occur, except 

 accidentally, away from the hill ranges which run down from the 

 Central Arrakan Yomas. It was, he said, essentially a bird of the 

 forest or mixed forest and bamboos, and did not haunt the higher 

 grass-covered plateaus which are often frequented by the birds of 

 the nydhemenis group. 



(^To he continued.) 



