22 LIEUT.-COLONEL SYKES ON THE 
The sexes do not differ in plumage. M.Temminck received several individuals from 
Java; and as they all resembled each other, he drew the just inference that the female 
could not differ much from the male. I mention this the more particularly, as the 
absence of varieties in his specimens will assist to justify me in considering the next- 
described bird as a new species. 
The first four quill-feathers are nearly of equal length ; but in some specimens they 
gradually lengthen from the first to the third, manifesting a disposition to a rounded wing. 
I never met with Hem. pugnaz in coveys. The birds were frequently in pairs, but 
mostly solitary. They affect cultivated lands, particularly chillee fields (Capsicum an- 
nuum), and the resorts of Cot. textilis. Their flight is lazy and short, and they are 
not readily put to the wing. 
The remains of black ants, minute coleopterous insects, and grass seeds, were found 
in the stomach. 
The flesh is in layers brown and white. 
The following are the measurements of a male and female: bill to the gape 455 
inch and +2 inch; height at the nostrils 2, and ;4,: length, inclusive of tail, 64; and 
.2, inches: tail 1-2, and 1-4, inch: tibie 1.% and 1,4 inch: tarsi +4 and = inch: 
middle toe and nail ;, and = inch, nail barely <2; inch; no hind toe nor rudiment 
of one. 
The liver consisted of two lobes, each with a ligulate process, as in Cot. erythrorhyncha 
and the black Partridge. With this exception, the internal organization bore a close 
resemblance to Cot. teztilis. The intestines were singularly tender, and 11 inches long : 
the ceca 1+ inch long, club-shaped, and full of green pulp; their insertion was at 
14 inch from the rectum. The stomach was very muscular. The testes and ovaries were 
distinctly marked. 
The muscular stomach and proportionally long intestines, compared with Otis, would 
prevent its being placed in that genus ; but its cursorial habits and the form of its 
bill would justify its displacement from the Tetraonide, and it might come in after 
Otis in Struthionide. 
Its pugnacious qualities are quite unknown in Dukhun and even in Java. 
The Zoological Society has a specimen of this bird from Madras. It would appear, 
therefore, to have an extended geographical range over the eastern islands and India. 
