MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 121 
years ago one of these birds took up its abode in the N. E. corner of 
the compound of what was the Survey school (now the Civil Service 
College ) at Sapatum, when I lived there. It was there for some three 
months at least in the wet season, and never moved from the same 
position within a radius, say, of 60 yards. I believe it kept on the 
high banks of the roadside and boundary cuttings. I never saw it, but 
it called so constantly, presumably in the search fora mate, that attention 
could not fail to be attracted to it. The call is unmistakable, being a 
flat somewhat hoarse crow, like that of an ordinary domestic cock 
with a cold in its throat, and may be nearly rendered by the syllables 
kak, Kak-Kak, Ka-Kah. These birds are often kept in captivity in 
cages in Bankok, and I never had any doubt that this was one which 
had escaped. Its call attracted the attention of passers-by on the 
public road, and more than once I had to warn off persons with guns 
who entered the compound in pursuit of it. Possibly one of them got 
it in the end, for after a time its call was heard no more. I see no 
reason why these birds should not be able to live in patches of grass 
or bush-jungle on raised ground near Bangkok. I understand they 
have been found in one or two such spots. There is hardly any such 
ground in Bangkok or neighbourhood which has not been artificially 
raised. The generality of the country about is low-lying, and is more 
or less flooded during the rains, and is thus quite unsuited to these 
birds and dissimilar to their ordinary habitat. I should say that, even 
if they bred to some extent, they would be liable, on account of the 
damp, to disease similar to grouse disease in England, and would soon 
die out. 
A. J. IRWIN. 
Bangkok, 15th July, 1914. 
| As the Chinese Francolin is a Siamese bird, and is admittedly found at 
large in the environs of Bangkok, it ix, we think, properly included in Mr. 
Williamson’s list, though Mr. Irwin’s explanation of its presence here may be 
correct. Eds.j 
No. XI.—SOME INTERESTING BIRDS FOUND NEAR 
THE WESTERN BOUNDARY. 
The following notes on birds, shot on my recent trip from 
Raheng down the Me Klong river, may be of interest to members 
