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berries, seeds, tender shoots and leaves 

 and insects of various sorts. It does not 

 scratch about nearly so much as the 

 Arboricolas, and is much quicker and 

 more lively in its movements, much Hke 

 a Quail, running hither and thither. They 

 rise well before a dog, but it is hard to 

 flush them without. Their note is a soft, 

 mellow, pleasant whistle, which is chiefly 

 heard in the morning, but which they 

 also utter when calling to each other, 

 after they have been separated. Like 

 that of A. rufogiilaris, their note is very 

 easily imitated, and they will answer the 

 call readily." 



I cannot find any account of the 

 nidification of this Partridge, but in the 

 British Museum there is an egg of this 

 species which was sent from Labuan in 

 Borneo. It is an oval glossy egg of a 

 very pale buff colour. It measures i'52 

 by I '2 1. In the same collection there 

 are two eggs which were laid by a bird of 

 this species in the Zoological Gardens of 

 London. These eggs are a rather warm 

 buff tinged with olive ; one is spotless 

 and measures i'5 by i"i6, the other has 

 a few specks of brown scattered over the 

 shell and is of about the same size as the 

 other. 



