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was found on June the 11th. Another with well fledged birds was 

 found on the following da}',^ The first nest was on one of tiie outer 

 branches near the top of a high durian tree. Ifc was built of fine 

 fibre which was stuck on to the upper side of a branch, and then 

 coated with lichen, so that it i-esenibled a knot or excrescense on the 

 branch. It was a flat cup-shaped nest measuring 3;^ in. diameter 

 outside, by | in. deep, and it was only with- the greatest diflficulty 

 that it could be mode out, even with glasses. The other nest was stuck 

 on to the leaf-stem of a high betel palm, and was almost as difficult 

 to see. In both cases the nests were only found by watching the 

 parent birds carrying food to the young, and it would be pi"actically 

 impossible to find a nest without watching the birds either building 

 or feeding the young. 



E. G. HERBERT. 



August, 1914. 



No. X — OCCURKENl^E OF THE CHINESE FRANCOLIN 

 j~( FRAN COLIN US CHINENSIS ) IN BANGKOK. 



In the Preliminary List of the Birds of Bangkok by Mr. W.J.F. 

 Williamson, published in Vol. I No. 1, of this Journalj the number 

 opposite the name Chinese Francolin, is marked with an asterisk to 

 indicate that no specimens have been obtained, although the occurrence 

 of tlie bird is believed to be tolerably certain. I bdlieve the occurrence 

 is quite certain, but I consider that the birds in qiiestion have either 

 escaped from captivity, or been freed for the purpose of making merit, 

 or are the offspring of such birds. 1 do not know thab it would be 

 correct to describe birds bred in this way as " of Bangkok," except in 

 a very limited sense. I have had occasion to move about a good deal 

 in Krungtep ( Bangkok ) Province, both in the wet and dry seasons, 

 and I have never seen any of these birds, or heard of them as 

 indigenous or likely to be found. They are birds of the higher dry 

 lands, preferably with some bush-jungle about for covei*, and there I 

 have found them, but such country does not exist in Bangkok 

 Province. Several years ago I was in the northern part of the 

 Province, in Kiav^rng Rangsit district, where tlie land had not yet been 

 taken up for cultivation, and was covered with grass jungle. There, if 

 anywhere — the jungle being more or less undisturbed — one would have 

 expected to hear of them, but I never either saw or heard them. Some 



