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829. — Coturnix communis, Bonn. 



Obtained in Karennee by Ramsay ; not observed as yet else- 

 where in Tenasserim. 



831.— Excalfactoria sinensis, Lin. (3). 



Pakclian ; Malewoon. 



Sparingly distributed throughout the province, I believe, in 

 suitable localities. 



[I have only seen and shot this pretty little Quail, about the 

 rice fields in the extreme south of the province. I always 

 fouud it singly or in pairs, more often I think singly ; when 

 flushed it rises with a loud whirr, flies some distance, drops, and 

 immediately hides itself, and nothing but a dog will induce it to 

 rise again. It is rare even where it does occur. I have never, 

 that I can remember, heard its note. — W. D.] 



The following are dimensions, &c, recorded in the flesh of two 

 males and a female : — 



Males. — -Length, 6'0 ; expanse, 9'35, 9*8 ; tail, 1*0 ; Aving, 2'82, 

 2'9 ; tarsus, 0'8 ; bill from gape, 05, 055 ; weight, 15, 

 1-75 oz. 



Female. — Length, 6-0; expanse, 100; wing, 3'0; tarsus, 

 0"82 ; bill from gape, 0'5 ; weight, 2'5 ozs. 



Legs and feet bright orange or chrome yellow ; claws pale 

 horny brown ; bill in the male blackish, edges of mandibles 

 along commissure, plumbeous ; in the female plumbeous ; hides 

 in the male crimson, in the female brown. 



831 bis. — Phoenicoperdix chloropus, Blyth. 



I cannot now discover where Blyth named and described this 

 species. I am much inclined to think that this species, given by 

 Mr. Gray, Hand List, Sp. 9,725, from Moulmein is an over- 

 sight of that gentleman's, and that he intended or was think- 

 ing of Tropicoperdix of Blyth, under which generic name he 

 described, Arboricola chloropus, J. A. S. B., 1859, 415 ; especial- 

 ly as this latter does occur actually in Moulmein, Captain 

 Bingham having recently shot a pair near the Circuit house ; 

 but then Mr. Gray has separately given Tropicoperdix, sp. 

 9,704 ; and again Hartlaub, who was not likely to make the 

 same mistake in his tl Bericht ub.d.Leistungen in d. .Nat urges - 

 chichte der Vogel" for the year 1859, p. 99, also gives JPhteni- 

 coperdix chloropus, Blyth, and Hartlaub does not generally 

 make mistakes of this nature. But then he omits TropicoperdLv, 

 which looks as if he had made a mistake, and as if Gray had 

 simply copied Hartlaub. 



Blyth, moreover, entirely ignores this supposed species in 

 his list of the Birds of Burma, another argument in favor of 



