THE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON, i) 
Colours of Soft Parts—* The legs and feet appear to be always much 
paler ” (than the Himalayan race) “a pinky and not a bright red. ” 
(Hume). 
Jeasurements.—Males, wings 158 to 148 mm., average 145 mm., 
females 132 to 136 mm., average 134 mm. There are only small 
series of either sex in the British Museum, so that the averages 
mean but little. 
From the measurements available, however, it seems that Hume 
was right in saying that the Tennasserim race is bigger than the Hima- 
layan one. 
Distribution —Tennasserim, South Shan States and probably 
Eastern and Southern Siam and the Northern Malay Peninsula. A 
specimen in the British Museum collection from the Southern Shan 
States is quite typically of this race. 
Nidification—There is no account of this bird breeding in a wild 
state, but Mr. Barnby Smith has given us a very interesting account 
of its nesting in captivity. He says :— 
“T moved the partridges into a small run to thems«lves, the 
ground being covered with old tussocks of grass and a small 
shelter shed with sanded floor being provided at one end of the 
run, also several branches for perches outside. I gave the birds 
for nesting purposes a lot of dried grass both outside and inside 
the shed. 
“ About 10th March nearly all the dried grass inside the shed 
was moved from one corner to another and formed into a covered 
nest, the bottom of the nest being a hollow scooped out in the 
sand. Apparently this nest was not pleasing to the birds, and 
they were soon seen busy pulling about the dried grass I had 
provided outside the shed. 
“ By the 18th March they had completed a second nest—a 
curious domed structure. The back of the nest was a large tuft 
of grass, the nest itself being a rather deep, large hollow in the 
ground lined with grass and covered all over (except the 
entrance hole in the side opposite the tuft) with a large mass of 
dried grass. . . It was interesting to note how careful 
the birds were during the nesting period to put dried grass 
from time to time so as nearly to block up the entrance at the 
side of the nest when not in use. The result of this was ex- 
cellent, as when one of the birds had just emerged from the 
nest the round hole would strike the eye, but, when partly 
blocked with grass, the nest was practically invisible. 
“ Both birds continued to sit like stones for some time, and 
when I finally disturbed the negt I found four eggs in it. 
“ These eggs were white and measured 1°6 by 1:2 inches.” 
