NOVELTIES. 471 



I have classed this bird as a Perdicula, to which structurally 

 it is very close, but so far as the lower plumage goes it recals 

 the Southern Francolin, while in its upper plumage it reminds 

 one of Ophrysia. I am not sure that it ought not to constitute 

 the type of a separate genus, but the game birds are already 

 so sub-generized that on the whole I prefer to retain it as 

 Perdicula, with which it agrees sufficiently well. 



I never heard it call, though certainly the birds go nor- 

 mally in coveys, and we separated the individuals composing 

 these widely enough. 



Those killed had fed on grass seeds, pods of a tiny wild 

 lentil, and ants of various colours. In one there were tiny 

 black fragments that looked like portions of the wing-cases of 

 some coleopterous insect. 



A. 0. H. 



JUtdtfhmat $tafes on t\xt |pdi)fcatia» uf Jltrds in 

 Mxitinh Sitrmah, 



Br Capt. 0. H. T. Bingham. 



Although during the past season I have taken a good 

 many eggs, accounts of which I have forwarded to the Editor 

 for the next edition of Nests and Eggs, I have only succeeded 

 in procuring the eggs of six species of which eggs had not 

 previously been taken, and of these even, one must remain for 

 the present somewhat doubtful. 



These six species are as follows :— ■ 



73 fo>.— Ketupa javanensis, Less, 



On the 27th February, while wandering about in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Meeawuddy on the Thoungyeen River, I started a 

 couple of these Owls, of which I shot one, from among the 

 branches of a large Nyoung-bin (Ficus, sp. ?), hanging over the 

 bank of a small choung or stream. Thinking there might be 

 eggs, I sent a peon up, and soon heard from him that at the 

 place where a large branch forked off, a natural depression 

 existed, where a single large round white egg lay on a few 

 ■withered twigs and feathers. The egg -was quite fresh, dull 

 chalky-white in color and measures 2*21 inches by 1-87 inches. 



[This egg is au excessively broad oval, and though somewhat 

 smaller, precisely similar in other respects to eggs of K. ceylon- 

 ensis. — A. 0. H.] 



