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" and my dog again pnt her up ; tinfortunately, owing to 

 "the thick jungle, I was unable to get a shot. Walking 

 " on, however, 1 again put up another, whether a cock or hen, 

 " I could not saj', as it was already dark. I fired, but the 

 " bird flew away, and although I believe it dropped, I 

 " could not find it. These birds, when I saw them, were 

 " feeding amongst the dead leaves which littered the ground. 



" The next evening I tried the upper side of the road, and 

 "put several (four at least) of the same birds out of the long 

 "grass on a steep hillside. I only managed to geb one long 

 "shot which was not successful. I again tried the next morn- 

 " ing, and was successful in bagging another ; my dog put it up 

 " on our right, and flying ver}^ low thmngh the bushes, it 

 " crossed just in front of me. Unfortunatel}^ the bird was not 

 " well skinned, and I had to throw it away. 



" The specimen that I have retained is a full-grown cock; the 

 " other one was a young cock without the long tail, the plumage 

 " was otherwise identical with that of the other bird. The 

 "hill on which I obtained these specimens was between 4,000 

 " and 5,000 feet high, being one of the spurs of the Chin Hills 

 "running down into the Kale Valley, and the birds were 

 " close to the Fort-Kalemyo Fort White Road, just about at 

 " milestone 20. The latitude is approximately 23" and the 

 "longitude approximately 9G°." 



Mr, Cook in a letter to me writes : 



"P. humvK I often saw and shot. The birds were generally 

 " to be found in somewhat open jungle, where the trees are 

 " principally oaks and similar species, and where one finds an 

 " undergrowth and open spaces of long grass, or long grass and 

 " bracken mixed. Near Minkin I found them in steep grass 

 " slopes, and here they were by no means uncommon, and 

 " associated in small flocks or family parties. On one occasion 

 " 1 flushed no less than eight or ten birds from an ant-hill 

 " overgrown with grass and crowned with a clump of dwarf 

 " dates, upon the fruit of which I think the Pheasants were 

 " feeding. On another occasion I saw a couple of hens with 

 " a cock at Pine-Tree Camp in similar jungle and at about the 

 " same elevation (7,000 feet). 



"As far as my experience goes they do not fly very far 

 " when first flushed, and as a rule they fly low down, seldom, 

 " if ever, rising above the tops of the trees ; nor does their 

 " flight strike one as being at all fast, and, indeed, compared 

 "with the English Pheasant, it seems very much slower. 

 " They are not hard birds to flush, especially the first time, 

 "but as I have nearly always had a dog out with me when 



