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was found on June the 11th. Another with well fledged birds was. 
found on the following day. The first nest was on one of the outer 
branches near the top of a high durian tree. It was built of fine 
fibre which was stuck on to the upper side of a branch, and then 
coated with lichen, so that it resembled a knot or excrescenze on the 
branch. It was a flat cup-shaped nest measuring 84 in. diameter 
outside, by # in. deep, and it was only with the greatest difficulty 
that it could be made out, even with glasses. The other nest was stuck 
on to the leaf-stem of a high betel palm, and was almost as difficult 
to see. In both cases the nests were only found by watching the 
parent birds carrying food to the young, and it would be practically 
impossible to find a nest without watching the birds either building 
or feeding the young. 
HK. G. HERBERT. 
August, 1914. 
No. X —OCCURRENCE OF THE CHINESE FRANCOLIN 
( FRANCOLINUS CHINENSIS ) IN BANGKOK. 
In the Preliminary List of the Birds of Bangkok by Mr. W.J.F. 
Williamson, published in Vol. I No. 1, of this Jowrnal, the number 
opposite the name Chinese Francolin, is marked with an asterisk to 
indicate that no specimens have been obtained, although the occurrence 
of the bird is believed to be tolerably certain. I believe the occurrence 
is quite certain, but I consider that the birds in question have either 
escaped from captivity, or been freed for the purpose of making merit, 
or are the offspring of such birds. I do not know that it would be 
correct to describe birds bred in this way as ‘‘ of Bangkok,” except in_ 
a very limited sense. I have had occasion to move about a good deal 
in Krungtep (Bangkok) Province, both in the wet and dry seasons, 
and I have never seen any of these birds, or heard of them as 
indigenous or likely to be found. They are birds of the higher dry 
lands, preferably with some bush-jungle about for cover, and there I 
have found them, but such country does not exist in Bangkok 
Province. Several years ago I was in the northern part of the 
Province, in Klawng Rangsit district, where the land had not yet been 
taken up for cultivation, and was covered with grass jungle. There, if 
anywhere—the jungle being more or less undisturbed—one would have 
expected to hear of them, but I never either saw or heard them. . Some 
