40 JOURNAL, NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY OF STAM. Vol. I. 
in camp. One of these was shot and borne off, as it fell, by a Sparrow 
Hawk. The Hawk could not rise with the weight cf the bird, but 
glided with it to a perch. 
In the open forests of Shorea, the Chinese Francolin is most 
common and, during the rains, very noisy. One I shot this year was 
perched in a tree upwards of 30 feet from the ground. 
Jungle Fowl] ( Gallus ferrugineus ) are very common, and the 
Silver Pheasant ( Gennaeus lineatus ) is generally distributed. I found 
on April 3rd a nest of this with 8 eggs, the nest being situated some 
2 kilometres from water, so far as I know, but it was cavernous lime- 
stone country and there may have been some underground pool 
accessible. 
Peacocks ( Pavo muticus ) were abundant, and a number of eggs 
were hatched out. Kxcept for the morning and evening call at roost, 
the Peacock is a very silent bird; but these hand-reared chicks were 
cheeping and calling throughout the day and never happy if left alone. 
They became a nuisance in office. It was amusing to watch chicks 
of 3 weeks old erecting stumpy tails and lowering wings to intimidate 
a young Macacque, or a ground lizard (Siamese, “ Yaa” uel): or 
when a little older, trying te frighten a Woodpecker which had excited 
their wrath by tapping on dry bamboo poles. 
The ‘ Yaa” ( Liolepis helliana) are found everywhere in light, 
warm, dry soils, and in the cleared area of my camp there were a 
number of them. ‘The big ones seemed to stay below ground during 
bad weather—stopping up the entrance hole from beneath. They 
run very fast and have the habit of sitting up to observe anything it 
a clistance. The female, [ believe, tends the young when hatched 
out: as I remember seeing one dug out with a number cf quite young 
lizards in the same burrow. 
The brown lizard, common in Bangkok gardens, was found at 
all elevations and I shot a Monitor ( Varunus nebulosus, Siamese, 
Aznan Takuat ) at some 900 metres elevation on the boun:lary, 
which had in its mouth one of these lizards, They ( V. ne u!osus ) 
were breeding in July, and I found the eggs lightly covered with 
loose earth. 
[ To be continued. ] 
