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dead stump of a tree about three feet frcm the ground. Mr. T. F. 

 Bourdillon found a nest at Pirmerd on August 20. 



(246) Galloperdix spadicea. — The Red Spur-fowl. 

 Blanford, No. 1349 ; Jerdon, No. 814. 

 This spur-fowl is common throughout the low country wherever 

 there is forest. It does not ascend the hills, but frequents the foot of 

 them. Breeds in. April. 



(247) Excalfactoria chinensis. — The Blue-breasted Quail. 

 Blanford, No. 1354; Jerdon, No. 831. 

 This pretty little quail is said " not to have been observed on the 

 Malabar Coast, south of Bombay." It is, however, to be met with in 

 the grass lands at Pirmerd. Stone coloured eggs, densely spotted with 

 minute spots of brown and black, were brought to Mr. Bourdillon in 

 June at Malayattur in North Travancore. They measured '93 X '75, 

 and are, I believe, the eggs of this bird. 



(248) Coturnix communis. — The Common or Grey Quail. 

 Blanford, No. 1355 ; Jerdon, No. 829. 

 The Museum contains no specimens of this quail, but I am informed 

 that it is not uncommon' on the grass lands at Pirmerd, where it is known 

 as " the drummer" from the purring sound it makes. 



(249) Perdicula asiatica. — The Jungle Bush-Quail. 

 Blanford, No. 1357 ; Jerdon, No. 826. 

 Numbers of these birds are brought round alive from the eastern side 

 to Trevandrum for sale; they are not taken in Travancore but in the dry 

 district of Tinnevelly. They may be found, however, about Cape 

 Comorin, but so far as I am aware nowhere else in Travancore. 

 (250) Microperdix erythrorhyncus, — The Painted Bush-Quail. 

 Blanford, No. 1359 ; Jerdon, No. 828. 

 I have only found this quail on the Cardamom hills and the High 

 Range ; at the latter place and at Pirmerd it is the commonest species 

 by far. Mr. T. F. Bourdillon took the eggs at Pirmerd in December. 

 (251) Francolintjs pondicerianus. — The Grey Partridge. 

 Blanford, No. 1375 ; Jerdon, No. 822. 

 This, as I have already pointed out, is one of the birds that are found 

 alike in Northern Ceylon and in South Travancore, being fairly cemmon 

 in and about the neighbourhood of Cape Comorin, but not found else- 

 where. 



