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preceding intercept each other very 

 curiously ; and presently, when we have 

 more specimens to compare from various 

 localities, I think the two species may 

 have to be united. 



Speaking of this Partridge, Mr. Hume 

 says : — " This species was very common 

 in the Eastern Manipur Hills at eleva- 

 tions of 4000 feet and upwards. In the 

 Western hills I did not see it. 



** It frequented chiefly the thinner 

 jungle, on the slopes of the hills, which 

 has grown up where in past years the 

 primeval forest had been felled for culti- 

 vation. They run terribly, and without 

 dogs it is only by the merest chance that 

 one can get a shot at them. As a rule 

 they never fly ; only when, caught between 

 two or three beaters, there is no other 

 means of escape, do they make up their 

 minds to show themselves, and then they 

 rise with a rush with comparatively little 

 noise, and sweep away smoothly and very 

 rapidly down hill." 



Again he writes : — " I obtained a nest 

 of this species containing six eggs on the 

 loth May at an elevation of 6000 feet 

 near Machi in the Eastern Manipur Hills. 

 The nest was a pretty large depression 

 at the base of a tuft of grass scantily lined 



