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forest, thin tree, bamboo and scrub jungle. It comes out in the 

 morning and evening into the fields and clearings, retiring 

 during the day to cover. They are always found in larger or 

 smaller flocks, consisting of males and females ; when disturbed 

 they usually rise at once and disperse in different directions ; 

 when the female is sitting or has young ones, she keeps apart 

 from the flocks, and generally keeps to cover, seldom comiug 

 into the open until the chicks are well grown and pretty strong 

 on the wing. 



On one occasion, near Pahpoon, I counted thirty males and 

 females seated side by side on one enormous bent bamboo. 

 Mr. Hildebrande was with me, or I should not have ventured 

 to record the fact. I counted them carefully through my 

 binoculars. They were at the other side of the Younzaleen, 

 I guessed about 70 yards off ; I loaded a large duck gun with 



big shot, fired at the lot and apparently did not touch one.— 



W. D.] 



Ramsay found a nest with 11 eggs in Karennee on the 14th 

 March. 



819 Us.— Francolinus chinensis, Osb. Descr. S. F., 

 III., 171. 



Lieutenant Ramsay says : — 



" This bird, though unknown in the plains of the Tonghoo 

 district, is very abundant in the Karen-nee hills. In the hills 

 it frequents the sides of rocky hills and other inaccessible places. 

 Its whereabouts may always be known by its extraordinary 

 call, which it is continually uttering, and which may be ren- 

 dered on paper by the syllables kuk, ku/c, kuich, ka-kd." 



824 ter. — Arboricola brunneopectus, Tick (5). Descr. 

 S. F., III., 174. 



(Tonglwo and Karen Sills, Rams.) Kycmk-nyat ; Mooleyit. 



Sparsely distributed through the hill forests of the northern 

 and central portions of the province. 



[I have only met with this species on tw T o occasions, and 

 then in pairs in very dense jungle, at the bottom of dark ravines. 

 I did not hear their note, and can say nothing of their habits, 

 except that they did not seem to be shy, as I had got within 

 a few yards of them before I saw them move, and then they 

 ran up the path but did not rise. — W. D.] 



The following are dimensions, &c, of a male and two 

 females recorded in the flesh : — 



Male. — Length, 116; expanse, 195 ; tail from vent, 2*6; 

 wing, 6'0 ; tarsus, 176 ; bill from gape, 11 ; weight, 12 ozs. 



