50 Mr. J. D. D. La Touclic on the 



17th May. The latter bird was sitting on her nest when 

 shot. Tlie hunter who secured her, happening to look up 

 into a large tree, saw a bird looking down at him, and, taking 

 it for a Barbet (!), fired a charge of dust-shot, which, to his 

 astonishment, brought down a fine hen Tragopan. He at 

 once climbed the tree and found, on an old squirrel's nest 

 of the year before, four eggs. According to the man's state- 

 ment, the nest was about 30 feet from the ground. These 

 are the first eggs of C. cahoti obtained at Kuatun. The 

 natives having never taken the nest before, they were much 

 astonished at finding it so high up in a tree, as until then 

 they had met with Pheasants' nests only on the ground. 



Of the four eggs brought to me, two were nearly ready to 

 hatch and two were addled, one of the latter being quite 

 rotten. The remains of the young birds extracted from the 

 fertile eggs have been deposited in the British ]\Iuscum. The 

 ■wings of the young birds have quills over an inch long. One 

 of the eggs, now in Mr. Rickctt's collection, measures 

 1-92 X 1-62 inch. The other three measure 2-20xl-60, 

 1'95 X 1*55, and 1*91 X 1"60 inch. The colour of these eggs 

 is buff, thickly freckled with pale brown, the freckling 

 coalescing in places. The texture is chalky. The shape is 

 a short broad ovate in two eggs, and ovate in a third. 

 S imm. 30th March, 1898. Wattle pink, banded with pale 

 cobalt, the bands tinged in centre with silvery green ; 

 hairy part of wattle livid purple, spotted with orange- 

 vermilion ; legs greenish pink ; claws livid grey. Total 

 length 245 inches. The crop contained young leaves. 

 $ ad. 13th April, 1898. Iris light brown; bill livid purplish 



brown. Total length 1*79 inches. 

 ? ad. 17th May, 1898. Upper mandible light brown; lower 

 mandible pale greyish ; legs pale pinkish grey ; claws 

 grey. Total length 21 inches. Stomach contained 

 acorns. 



170. Francolinus chinensis (Briss.). 



A pair shot near Wu Yi Shan, where this species is 

 apparently common. I heard several calling on the low hills 

 near Shao-w^u-fu. 



