390 BLUM A, IT.'i VEOVLK AX J) I'llUDCCTIOXS. 



Davison p;ivcs an interesting account of these birds in S.F. vi. p. 427. They 

 are solitary binls, even the sexes living usually apart. A remarkable trait in the 

 male is the care he bestows in clearing a patch of gi'ound some six or eight yards 

 square of every leaf or stick, and which serves him as a space wherein to rest 

 during the day, or as a sort of ijuarter-deck wherein to take exercise, and where 

 the hen occasionally condescends to visit him. The males too are described as not 

 being pugnacious, and as answering each other's calls in a friendly spirit. They 

 are extremely wary birds, and it is next to impossible to approach them so as to 

 get a .shot without being discovered ; but they are easily trapped, advantage being 

 taken of the bird's care to remove all untidy objects from his hymeneal rink. The 

 hen lays seven or eight eggs, spotted something like those of a turkey. 



PoLTPLFXTROx CHiNQTTis, Tcm. ' Sillict. Assam. Tenasserim. Mooleyit. 



P. tibetanus, L. 

 P. lineaiicm, Hard. $ . 



Doung-kula. 



Confined in Tenasserim, according to Hume, to the easternmost hills, or perhaps 

 their eastern slopes. 



P. BicALCAEAiUii, L. Mcrgui (?). 



Hume suggests doubts if tlic skins formerly sent from Mergui, may not have 

 been really brought from the Straits. 



rnASIAXIX.E. 



EupLOCAMUS LiNEATUs, Lath. Pegu. ^Martabau. Tenasserim. 



Of the species of Euplocamus found in Arakan, Blyth remarks that it is liyhrid 

 between E. Unealiis and E. Horsfeldi, Elliot, of Tippcra and Sylhet ; but as these are 

 geographically separated from the home of lincatus, I suppose the word hybrid is used 

 simply to signify an intermediate race, uniting the two dissimilar races to the North 

 and South respectively. 



E. Andersoni, Elliot. Yunan. 



This species would seem to be, according to Blyth, an intercalated race (hybrid 

 so to speak) between lineatus and the well-known silver pheasant, E. argeHtatus, 

 Swainson. 



E. Chawfurdi, Gray. Northern Tenasserim. 



E. ViEiLLOTi, Gray. Malcwun. Bankasun. The Tenasserim Valky. 



E. Ignitus, Lath, {fide Hume). 



Thaumalea AiiHERsTiiE, Gould. Tunan. 



G.iLLINiE. 



Gallus FEERTJoiNErs, Gmcl. Arakan. Pegu. Tenasserim. 



Jungle fowl. ' Tor-kyet.' The Malayan Peninsula. 



Very numerous throughout Burma, but does not ascend the higher ranges. Mr. 

 Davison once counted near Pahpoou a covey of thirty bii'ds all seated on one enormous 

 bent bamboo. 



ROLLULIN^. 



EoLLULTJS EouLROui,, Scop. Tennsscrim. Siaiu. Malayan 



R. cristatus, Gmcl. Peninsula. Sumatra. Borneo. 



The crowned partridge of Malacca, which extends to Mcrgui, is (says Jerdon) 

 remarkable for wanting the claw of the liind toe. The crest is .similar to that of the 

 crowned pigeons {Goura), and its affinities are rather with the GaUimc than the 

 Perdicime. 



