468 Lieut. Wardlaw Ramsay's Notes 



disturbed by a shot, and will frequently alight on a branch 

 within a few yards of the firer's head. 



Iris bloodshot-amber; orbital skin purplish pink; legs 

 and feet carnation. 



521. Macropygia assimilis. 



Macropygia assimilis, Hume, S. F. ii. p. 441. 



Affects bamboo and other low jungle. I found it most 

 numerous on the western slope of the Karen hills, and gene- 

 rally solitary in its habits. 



523. Macropygia tusalia. 



I found a nest containing two wliite eggs at 4000 feet in 

 the Karen hills on the 18th March. The eggs measured 

 roughly 1*4 by I'O inch. 



Iris white, surrounded by pale lilac; oi'bital skin grey, 

 with an inner rim of purple round the eye ; bill blackish ; 

 legs purplish pink. 



528. Gallus ferrugineus. 



(Burmese, " Tau-kiet.'') 



I took eleven eggs from a nest in Karen-nce on the 14th 

 March. The eggs were simply laid in a small hollow scratched 

 out by the bird under a fallen branch. 



532. Francolinus sinensis. 



(Burmese, "Ka.") 



This bird, although unknown in the plains of the Tonghoo 

 district, is very abundant in the Karen-nee, and also in the 

 Thyetmyo district to the westward of the Yoma. In the hills 

 it frequents the sides of rocky hills and other inaccessible 

 places. Its whereabouts may always be known by its extra- 

 ordinary call, which it is continually uttering, and which may 

 be rend'ered on paper by the syllables kuk, kuk, kuich, ka-kd. 



The flesh of this Francolin when cooked in the ordinary 

 way is singularly tasteless. 



552. Charadrius fulvus. 



The Eastern Golden Plover arrives in Burma about the 

 middle of September, but does not remain very long after the 

 termination of the rainy season. 



